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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Dracula (1897)
You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's.
Dracula (1897)
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
I have never seen so iron a countenance.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
I could not but be struck by the strangers.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.
Dracula (1897)
I never saw any one like him. He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!
He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Burton had a most vivid way of putting things — especially of the East. He had both a fine imaginative power and a memory richly stored not only from study but from personal experience.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
Dracula (1897)
"I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Dracula (1897)
Go home, Johann — Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.
Dracula's Guest (1914)
If we are successful we shall be able to let in on the world of modern science such a flood of light from the Old World as will change every condition of thought and experiment and practice.
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
Dracula (1897)
From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask.
Despair has its own calms.
Dracula (1897)