188 Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

I’ve been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see.

If you can’t have a little fun when you’re carrying out an assassination, then what’s the point?

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” “And your defect, Mr. Darcy, is to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.

Don’t be alarmed, Mr. Sturges. Some of my closest friends are dead.

It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this – that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.

The business of Mr. Bennett’s life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett’s was to get them married.

What an excellent father you have, girls!′ said she, when the door was shut. ‘Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.