Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

Bence insan bu kadar kolayca mutlu olmak için yarat?lmad?! Mutluluk, büyülü adalarda kap?lar?n? ejderhalar?n beklediÄŸi saraylar gibidir. Onu elde etmek için savaÅŸmak gerekir.

Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated. "And now," he exclaimed, remembering the tale of the Arabian fisherman, which Faria had related to him, "now, open sesame!

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Then why not indulge yourself at once? Sleep, by all means, if such be your means of procuring the concord of celestial sounds. Pray do not hesitate; you will find every incentive to slumber, and for what else but to send people asleep was the opera invented?

How closely he looks at you.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Wake up, my darling, and look at me, said Valentine with her adorable smile. Maximilien uttered a loud exclamation, and frantic, doubtful, dazzled, as though by a celestial vision, he fell upon his knees. - www.online-literature.com/dumas/crist...

Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Kahdella tapaa voi ihminen katsella, ruumiin ja sielun silmillä. Ruumiillinen silmä voi toisinaan unohtaa, sielun silmä ei koskaan.

Aika tuo selvyyttä. Asiat, jotka vielä eilen näyttivät hämäriltä, ovatkin huomenna päivänselviä.

Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You

Vain onnettomuus voi kaivaa esiin ihmisälyssä piilevät salaperäiset aarteet; tarvitaan painetta, jotta ruuti räjähtää.

If crowns were only for the most beautiful and intelligent heads, Mercedès would be a queen now.

We are judges of wounds, we old soldiers

Onko maailma sitten täynnä tiikereitä ja krokotiileja? - On. Mutta kaksijalkaiset tiikerit ja krokotiilit ovat vaarallisempia kuin nelijalkaiset.

A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.

Really; and you think this cousin pays her attentions? I only suppose so. What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.

I felt ashamed at letting a talent like mine go to waste, and, as I had been given some new pistols, I thought I'd try them out on the Arabs.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. we have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.

have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me. Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first