Quote#War
He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!
Quote byBram Stoker · 1847–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907), Describing his first meeting of Sir Richard Francis Burton and his wife Isabel, on 13 August 1878, Vol. 1, p. 224.
English (original)
He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!
— Bram Stoker
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