Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

But there are shutters?' 'Yes, there are, but they are never used. He's eccentric, this Count of Monte Cristo, and likes to see the sky, even at night.

The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.

I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.

human justice is sadly lacking in consolation; it can only sheed blood in exchange for blood.

taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all

Beneath passion and beyond pleasure, there is always a trace of remorse.

Dragostea, vedeÈ›i, aÈ™a cum o înÈ›eleg eu, e un sacrificiu necontenit, absolut, întreg; dar nu numai sacrificiul unuia dintre cei doi implicaÈ›i în relaÈ›ia de prietenie. Ea înseamn? abnegaÈ›ia des?vârÈ™it? a dou? suflete care vor s? se contopeasc? într-unul singur.

I have in my heart three feelings with which one can never be bored: sadness, love and gratitude.

We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man.

Dac? e vorba de spectacol, îmi place mai mult s? privesc aceast? îngr?m?dire de copaci negri, printre care scânteie ici-colo câte-o lumini?? care trece ca un ochi înroÈ™it, când deschis, când închis.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.

The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.

Avete mai provato per qualcuno una di quelle irresistibili simpatie che fanno sì che vedendo una persona per la prima volta, credete di conoscerlo da lungo tempo, e vi domandate dove è quando l'abbiate vista, cosicché, non potendo ricordarvi né il luogo né il tempo finite con il credere che sia stato in un mondo anteriore al nostri, e che questa simpatia sia un ricordo che si risvegli?

he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.

All men are scoundrels and I am happy to be able to do more than hate them: now I despise them.

Maximilian, said the count, the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.

EÈ™ti cu mult mai presus decât dragostea mea ca s? îndr?znesc s?-È›i vorbesc, È™i totuÈ™i de câte ori te v?d simt nevoia s?-È›i spun c? te ador, fiindc? atunci când nu te mai v?d, ecoul propriilor mele cuvinte îmi alin? inima.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

Well, so much the better for him,' said the inspector. 'When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.' As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.

Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me." "Bravo