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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKER, "The Secret of the Growing Gold"
Listen to them -- children of the night. What music they make.
It is easy to listen to far off echoes unmoved, and we can treat them with disbelief, or scorn, or disdain, or whatever attitude of coldness may suit our purpose. But when the scandal came close home it was another matter; and the feelings of independence and integrity which is in people of every community which is not utterly spoiled, asserted itself and demanded that condemnation should be expressed.
BRAM STOKER, "The Secret of the Growing Gold"
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKER, "The Rose Prince"
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.
Fighting for its own sake is found by a certain class of persons, all the world over, to be a matter of absorbing interest, and there is no reason to believe that domestic conditions minimise its potency.
BRAM STOKER, "The Secret of the Growing Gold"
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER, "The Gipsy Prophecy"
Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKER, "The Burial of the Rats"
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
There is no honour due to fine clothes, but only to what is in the man himself who wears them.
BRAM STOKER, "The Rose Prince"
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
BRAM STOKER, "A Dream of Red Hands"
Despair has its own calms.
People cannot always talk sense if they talk much.
BRAM STOKER, "The Rose Prince"
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
BRAM STOKER, "The Rose Prince"
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
BRAM STOKER, "Under the Sunset"
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.
BRAM STOKER, "Under the Sunset"
It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.
BRAM STOKER, "The Rose Prince"
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
BRAM STOKER, Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
We learn from failure, not from success!
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars"
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. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
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.
Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER, Dracula's Guest
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars"
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