Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, added he with a smile, she will take her own. So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him.

I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.

When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter—to quit paradise for earth—heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.

The truth is,' replied Dantes, 'that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.

Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the carg0.

although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.

Si ha sempre fretta di essere felici, signor Danglars, perchè quando uno ha sofferto a lungo, stenta a credere alla felicità.

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos? -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto. -Pero, ¿adónde vais? -Al mar

I have just paid twenty-five thousand francs for a discovery for which I would willingly have paid a hundred thousand.' 'What have you discovered?' Maximilien asked. 'I have just found out how to rescue a gardener from the dormice who are eating his peaches.

Sir," suddenly exclaimed the countess, after their walk had continued ten minutes in silence, "is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain.

Human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines. The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the owner.

The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.

At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand, replied Mercedes; you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, 'I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true, Fernand?

M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.

I—drunk! said Caderousse; well that's a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Pere Pamphile, more wine! and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.

Take care, my worthy host, said Albert, better is a sure enemy to well.

we have both blood in our veins which we wish to shed - that is our mutual guaranty. Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is.