dracula-characters

"Ah, a stake driven through the heart. You see, sometimes legends are right. However, this cannot be tested too often. I can only have three brides at a time. [...] Brides, yes. I think that's the right word to define them. You see, I'm trying to reproduce, which, frankly, can be a bit of a challenge when there's only one of you."

"Why does passing always come as such a shock to you mortals?"

"[On why he wants to move to England] For the people. All those sophisticated, brilliant people. As I have tried to explain to everyone for centuries: "You are what you eat.""

"[On the sun] I haven't seen it in hundreds of years. [...] I had artists who painted it, poets who described it in verse, and Mozart composed such a beautiful melody. I... I should have spared him, but what does the lawyer see? Johnny, in my memory, sets behind the second highest peak this time of year, and is quite red."

"The end is a blessing. Dying gives you perspective. It is the mountain top from which your whole life is finally visible from beginning to end. Death completes you."

"Suicides don't work. Don't you think the undead tried? A stake through the heart is fine, but someone else has to drive it."

"At sea you meet an interesting variety of individuals, and I advise you not to get too attached to any of them."

"[On why he kills people] Why do you pick flowers?"

"I have always maintained that too much is just enough."

"Mirrors have deeper and more dangerous magic than people think. Mirrors can give space to the imagination or, worse, show us the truth."

"The refinement of a gentleman, Agatha, is always just a facade."

"I was a good detective, don't you think? I have a particular gift for "eliminating" suspicions."

"[On why she fears the crucifix] Everyone fears her, and that's the problem. It is not a symbol of virtue and goodness at all, it is a symbol of horror and oppression. Your stupid Church has terrorized the peasant population for centuries and I have drunk the blood of those people for so long that I have absorbed their deep fear of the cross. My God! I can't wait to eat some atheists."

"I have been in this world since the fifteenth century. Things change, but you get used to it. Although I admit that there was a great acceleration."

"Killing is healthy competition. Pity is disrespect."

"Look at all these things, all this food, the box with the moving pictures, and that thing out there... Bob calls it... a car. Is that yours? [...] And this treasure island is your home?! [...] Wonderful! Kathleen, I am a nobleman who has been alive for 400 years. I have lived in castles and palaces among the richest people of every age, and never, never have I found myself in more lavish luxury than that which surrounds me. This is a chamber of wonders. There is no king or queen or emperor that I have ever known or eaten that he would have walked into this room and agreed to leave. I knew the future would hold wonders. I didn't know it would make them accessible to everyone."

"I missed an entire century. What are rights? Nobody has rights, Zoe. Men, women or monsters, no one anywhere. It's just a senseless fantasy."

"I have always supported the heredity of power. Democracy is the tyranny of the ignorant. It is only in blood that we are able to find the truth."

"It is not my custom to eat livestock. If we're talking about blood, I'm a connoisseur. Blood is vine. Blood is a testimony. The testimony of all those I have killed flows through my veins. Now I will carefully choose who will join them. Maturity is the first step towards decay, sweetness is a promise of corruption."

"Death is the only act that still feels new. Every other human experience is cataloged somewhere in your infinite digital libraries. There is nothing new. Every moment of life is deteriorated and second-hand, except that one moment of existence that no one has ever been able to tell. In a world of roads already travelled, death is the only snow still pristine."

"Dracula (C.E.1931)"

"Hammer Cycle"

"Count Dracula (C.E.1970)"

"The Black Demon (C.E.1974)"

"Dracula seeks virgin blood... and dies of thirst!!! (C.E.1974)"

"Dracula (C.E.1979)"

"Nosferatu, the prince of the night (C.E.1979)"

"Fracchia against Dracula (C.E.1985)"

"Monster School (C.E.1987)"

"Bram Stoker's Dracula (C.E.1992)"

"Dracula: Dead and Happy (C.E.1995)"

"Van Helsing (C.E.2004)"

"Dracula 3D (C.E.2012)"

"Hotel Transylvania (C.E.2012)"

"Dracula Untold (C.E.2014)"

"Vlad III of Wallachia"

"If my company became unpleasant to her, she would have only herself to blame for having accepted a friendship which I very rarely grant, but which is difficult to free oneself from."

"Can you hear them? They are the children of the night. What a mournful melody theirs is. [...] It's so sad. It's like a moan."

"Sunrise, after all, is such an obvious thing, the warmth of the sun's rays. But the night... [...] It is made to love life and love."

"Let's go! Is it a curse or an invocation?"

"Welcome to my home. Enter freely. Go calmly, and give this place something of the happiness you bring with you!"

"It's always daytime somewhere on Earth, professor. Besides rest, my only need is to stay in the dark."

"You don't know how many have had the misfortune of facing me. I am the king of my race. You got nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I will wake and call Lucy, my queen, from her grave."

"In my long existence, I have had many wives. But for me, Lucy stands above them all."

"In the past, 500 years ago, professor, anyone who crossed my path would have died, and certainly not a pleasant death."

"Listen to them, the children of the night! This is their music! [...] Ah, sir, you who live in the city cannot make the feelings of a hunter your own."

"I have come to know your great England, and to know it is to love it. I can't wait to find myself in the crowded streets of your endless city, to be caught up in the vortex and frenzy of that humanity, to share its life, its changes, its death, and everything that makes it what it is."

"I know that in London, walking around and talking, no one would fail to notice that I am a foreigner. This isn't enough for me. Here I am a nobleman. I am a boyar. Everyone knows me, they know that I am the lord and master. But a stranger in a strange land is nobody. People don't know him, and not being known means not being important. It would be enough for me to be like everyone else, so that no one stops when they see me, or stops talking if they hear my words. 'Ah, ah! A stranger!' I have been a lord and master for so long that I would like to continue to be so, or - at least - that no one can call themselves lord or master over me."

"Here we are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our habits and customs are not yours, and many things will appear strange to you."

"This region was disputed for centuries between the Vlachs, Saxons and Turks. And therefore there is no clod of earth that has not been embellished with the blood of men, patriots or invaders."