Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

His youth reappeared, bringing with it all those sweet souvenirs which are rather perfumes than thoughts. Between that past and the present there was an abyss. But imagination has the angel's or lightning's wing; it clears seas in which we should certainly have been shipwrecked; it removes the darkness in which our illusions were lost, the precipice where our happiness was engulfed.

I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did

Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to one's self and the walls—walls have ears but no tongue;

This woman only became a criminal because she touched me. I am oozing with crime. She caught it off me as one may catch typhus, or cholera, or the plague!

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'—Your friend, "Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo.

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.

A tous maux il est deux remèdes : le temps et le silence.

Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.

Sono solo al mondo». «Allora amerete me. Se siete giovane, sarò vostro compare. Se siete vecchio, sarò vostro figlio. Ho un padre che dovrebbe avere settant'anni, se è ancora in vita. Amavo solo lui e una fanciulla di nome Mercédès. Mio padre non mi ha dimenticato, ne sono sicuro. Ma lei, Iddio solo sa se mi pensa ancora. Amerò voi come amavo mio padre».

Hoy, caballero, tenemos otros intereses; cada edad trae consigo los suyos; y como hoy nos entendemos hablando, como en otra época nos entendíamos sin hablar, hablemos, si os parece.

He then gave himself up to his happiness. He would no longer be alone. He was, perhaps, about to regain his liberty; at the worst, he would have a companion, and captivity that is shared is but half captivity. Plaints made in common are almost prayers, and prayers where two or three are gathered together invoke the mercy of heaven.

It was in this room and at the apothecary Glazer's that Sainte-Croix made his experiments; but in accordance with poetical justice, the manipulation of the poisons proved fatal to the workers themselves. The apothecary fell ill and died; Martin was attacked by fearful sickness, which brought, him to death's door. Sainte-Croix was unwell, and could not even go out, though he did not know what was the matter.

Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?

Has not some sage said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all my effects with me'? I have

This is all very well, sir," he said to the officer, "but this warrant contains no other name than mine, and so you have no right to expose thus to the public gaze the lady with whom I was travelling when you arrested me. I must beg of you to order your assistants to allow this carriage to drive on; then take me where you please, for I am ready to go with you.

Durerile mari sunt într-atât de venerabile, încât nu exist? exemplu, chiar în epocile cele mai nefericite, ca miÈ™carea dintâi a maselor s? nu fi fost o miÈ™care de simpatie pentru o mare catastrof?. MulÈ›i oameni duÈ™m?niÈ›i au fost asasinaÈ›i într-o r?scoal?; rareori pe un nenorocit, chiar dac? ar fi fost criminal, l-au insultat oamenii care asistau la condamnarea lui la moarte.

Când închid ochii, rev?d tot ce am v?zut. Exist? dou? feluri de priviri: privirea trupului È™i privirea sufletului. Privirea trupului poate uita uneori, dar cea a sufletului îÈ™i aminteÈ™te totdeauna.

Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear d'Artagnan, MORBLEU! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon, which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner terrible, often makes him feared.

If there is a mistake, Monsieur Morrel,' the commissioner replied, 'you may be sure that it will soon be put right. In the meanwhile, I have a warrant here; and though I do it with regret, I must fulfil my duty.

Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.

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. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.