Dracula Study AND Quote Guide Best Quotes

Dracula

Themes

Move away from the church + anxiety

Consequent moral degradation + anxiety

Consequent lack of reason by superstition+anxiety

Consequent lack of spiritual sanctuary/solace+anxiety

Symbol

Modernity-collectively represents the progression towards science, female social freedom

Vampires-represents general evil

Quote

1.       Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!

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

3.       Despair has its own calms

4.       There is a reason why all things are as they are

5.       But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down????!!!!!!!

6.       As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me… a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal

7.       When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.

8.       But, oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him

9.       The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel. Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix…

10.   a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale… I crept behind It, and gave It my knife; but the knife went through It, empty as the air

11.   there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white… something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell

12.   Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, comeing and going in great, whirling circles

13.   I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave…

14.   No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves

15.   The blood is the life!

16.   Not so! Alas! Not so. It is only the beginning!

17.   They were made by Miss Lucy!

18.   In trance she died, and in trance she is Un-Dead, too… There is no malign there, see, and so it make it hard that I must kill her in her sleep

19.   I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body

20.   The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness

21.   You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince you to-night

22.   With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast, which was shown by his torn open dress.

23.   As he placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it – had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white hot metal

24.   you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded – since once he put that mark upon your throat

25.   Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!

26.   Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

27.   I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which
I dare not confess to my own soul

28.   There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights

29.   No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart…

30.   What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash?

31.   No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he love

32.   The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.

33.   And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill

34.   Sleep has no place it can call its own.      

35.   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

36.   “I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats

37.   He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please

38.   There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples

39.   “It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

40.   Oh, friend John, 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

a.       We learn from failure, not from success!

41.   This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here.