"Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never……" — Bram Stoker
"Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night."
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Bram Stoker
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101 Quotes by Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker has 101 quotes on this site.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if…
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head…
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to…
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate…
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart…
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which…
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole…
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in…
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song…
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More Bough Quotes
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards…
— Lewis Carroll
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It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And…
— Clinton Scollard
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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss…
— Gary Snyder
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as…
— William Butler Yeats
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September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
— Robert Lowell
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Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
— George Pope Morris
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth,…
— William Saroyan
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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to…
— Philipp Meyer
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
— Charles Spurgeon
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