Bram Stoker Men Quotations

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

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 electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

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.

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.

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

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

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

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

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

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 be here on earth.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.