Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 8, 1847 Death: April 20, 1912
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!.
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths..
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill..
Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered….
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it..
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart..
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions..
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands..
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air..
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor..
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God take….
Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours..
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up..
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..
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what yo….
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly a….
She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can ….
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together..
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part..
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a ma….
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine..