Classic Dracula quotes from Bram Stoker's novel

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Bram Stoker wrote some classic lines in his novel (and not only about you-know-who!). The book makes the plot lines of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' seem tame in comparison!

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• "I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house."

• "Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!"

• "There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

• "We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor."

• "I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea."

• "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

• "I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."

• "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

• "For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on."

• "You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked, where of course you will not wish to go."

• "It is the eve of St George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?"

• "Despair has its own calms."

• "We learn from failure, not from success!"

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• "We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things."

• "Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night."

• "Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play."

• "Denn die Todten reiten schnell" - ("For the dead travel fast").

• "It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal."

• "There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand."

• "I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me."

• "Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!"

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• "Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements."

• "He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please."

• "There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."

• "I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may."

• "Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous than you think in this country."

• "But still in none of the rooms is there a mirror."

• "But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!"

• "The women looked pretty, except when you got near them..."

Apologies for that last one!

Extended Dracula quotes...

• "The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.
  But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit.
  The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!"

• "I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes. The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck, she actually licked her lips like an animal...
  Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat...I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited - waited with beating heart."

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• "You are a clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced...
  Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young..."

• "She still advanced, however, and with a languorous voluptuous grace, said: - 'Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!'
  There was something diabolically sweet in her tones - something of the tingling of glass when struck - which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another. As for Arthur, he seemed under a spell; moving his hands from his face, he opened wide his arms."

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• "Thus are we ministers of God's own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He has allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel toward sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause."

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