Dracula Quotes

Dracula Quotes

1. general

   • 'all things evil have full sway'
   • “i greatly fear the she is of too sensitive a nature to go through the world without trouble”
   • “remember, that knowledge is stronger than memory”
   • “it is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit”
   • “in this chess game which we play for the sake of human souls”

2. Dracula

   • “long and black, bending over the half reclining white figure” “ white face and red, gleaming eyes"
   • “a tall, thin chap … he had a ‘ard, cold look and red eyes”
   • “tall, thin man...black moustache...his face was hard, and sensual...lips were so red”
   • ‘by her side stood a tall, thin man, clad in black’ ‘his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down into his bosom’
   • ‘so panther like’ ‘so unhuman’
   • ‘in the face a look of peace, such as i never could have imagined might have rested there’

3. Lucy

   • “paler than is her wont, and there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which i do not like”
   • “some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our happiness”
   • “the beautiful colour became livid, the eyes seems to throw out sparks of hell-fire”

4. Harker

   • “my ideas of the trust between husband and wife; there should be no secret, no concealment”

5. Helsing

   • “advanced scientist of his day”

6. blood rerference

   • “she wants blood, she must have it or die
   • ‘glittering pool of blood’
   • ‘the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer’
   • people’ ‘i like them with lots of blood in them, and her had all seemed to have run out’

7. death reference

   • “alone with the dead”

8. Mina

   • “there are darknesses in life, and there are lights, you are one of those lights”
   • “one ought to pity any thing so hunted as is the count”
   • “mina was looking tired and pale” “far from well” “little too pale”
   • ‘Euthanasia is an excellent and a comforting word!’
   • ‘once more out teacher’ ‘her eyes have seen where we were blinded’

9. Pathetic Fallacy

   • “the air stagnant and foul” “stench of corruption”
   • “alive with rats” “looked like a bank of earth set with fireflies”
   • “with their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed”
   • “it began to dawn upon me that the air was heavy” “seemed to shine on me through fog like two red eyes”
   • ‘the sun rises today on no more miserable house in all the great round of its daily course’