Quotes from Dracula
16 notable lines from Bram Stoker · 1897
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!
Count Dracula, on the howling wolves, Ch. 2 The blood is the life!
Renfield Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
Count Dracula greeting Jonathan Harker at the castle door, Ch. 2 I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
Count Dracula introducing himself, Ch. 2 We learn from failure, not from success!
Van Helsing Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!
Count Dracula, repeating his welcome once Harker is inside, Ch. 2 We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
Count Dracula to Jonathan Harker, Ch. 2 You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
Count Dracula, cornered by his hunters, Ch. 23 He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.
One of the three vampire women, of the sleeping Harker, Ch. 3 I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.
Professor Van Helsing to Dr. Seward, Ch. 14 Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Professor Van Helsing to Dr. Seward, Ch. 10 No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Jonathan Harker's journal, Ch. 4 Despair has its own calms.
Jonathan Harker's journal, imprisoned in the castle, Ch. 4 We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked.
Mina Harker's journal, comforting Arthur Holmwood, Ch. 17 Why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?
Lucy Westenra, in a letter to Mina about her three suitors, Ch. 5