Count Dracula Quotes

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

Enter freely and of your own free will!

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!