Quotes About Dumas

that lovely brow, around which stars of diamonds formed a tremulous circlet...

I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.

I have looked at it with all possible attention, said Dantes, and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.

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

Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.

One!" said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.

What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.

Yes. You are pawning me for three million: am I right?' 'The larger the sum, the more flattering it is. It gives you some idea of your value.

I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers!

I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

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

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

I should be much displeased at this, not because of any loss that it might occasion, but because I should no longer have the assurance that, whenever I wish, I can separate myself from the rest of the world.

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

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

the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

Se puso Dantés de pie, y mirando hacia donde el barco parecía dirigirse, distinguió en la oscuridad, a cien toesas, la negra y descarnada roca en que campea como una esfinge el sombrío castillo de If.

Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him.

There is neither happiness nor misery in this 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.

some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

The truth is that you are afraid.' 'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

that theatrical formality invented to heighten the effect of a comedy called the signature of the contract