Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.