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Dracula Important Quotations for Essay Writing
Comprehensive list of quotations from Bram Stoker's Dracula sorted by character.
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Count Dracula- "And you, their best and beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my
bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my helper" (about Mina)
- "My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side!"
- "saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation" (JH)
- "The mouth... was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth" (JH)
- "Your girls that you all love are mine already!"
- “like a king speaking”
- “there was that in his eyes and in his bearing which made me remember that I was a prisoner”
- “Here I am noble; I am boyar; the common people know me, and I am master”
- “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 that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him
like great wings”
- “so panther-like in the movement — something so unhuman… cold stare of lion-like disdain”
- “This criminal has not full man-brain”
Jonathan Harker
- “He has won all hearts by his sweetness and his gentleness” (Sister Agatha)
- “Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!”
- “I felt impotent, and in the dark, and distrustful”
- "some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would
kiss me with those red lips"
- "the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill"
- "I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap"
- “The sight seemed to paralyse me”
- “wildest and least known portions of Europe”
- "The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!"
Dr. John Seward
- “I must only wait on hopeless and work. Work! work!”
- “I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain”
- “It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend”
- “I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it”
- “Do not press me too hard all at once. I am willing to accept. How will you do this bloody work?”
- “Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things… I may get some light on the
mystery”
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