I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up. Bram Stoker More Quotes by Bram Stoker More Quotes From Bram Stoker And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet! Bram Stoker land home children 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. Bram Stoker animal looks ideas Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! Bram Stoker escaping naked bees But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you. Bram Stoker silence strong waiting Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. Bram Stoker mad long thinking Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Bram Stoker assurance safety past There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. Bram Stoker one-word tombs huge 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 heart may littles 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 men children people He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. Bram Stoker patience men mean A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. Bram Stoker century made house The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. Bram Stoker actors acting years Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours. Bram Stoker eyebrows doctors doubt 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 dream beautiful country Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. Bram Stoker faculty faith believe 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 men mean thinking As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life. Bram Stoker evoke sparks life Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole. Bram Stoker pain sweet art 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 paris eye cities The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man. Bram Stoker law men sex
