“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

“You say that you people dont burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thats what true faith would mean, ysee? Sacrificin your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin the truth of it,...”

“We were born vampires.""I thought you became "" vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, its an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat now wha...”

“Its most unfair. Once people find out youre a vampire they act as if youre some kind of monster.”

“He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”