Quotes About Betrayal

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.

When Danglars witnessed Napoleon's return to France, he realized the full effect of the blow he had directed against Dantès: his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'.

but I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.

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

I am the one whom you sold, betrayed and dishonoured. I am the one whose fiancée you prostituted. I am the one on whom you trampled in order to attain a fortune. I am the one whose father you condemned to starvation, and the one who condemned you to starvation, but who none the less forgives you, because he himself needs forgiveness. I am Edmond Dantès!

Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

Every day he spoke of the immensity of the treasure, explaining to Dantes all the good a man could do for his friends in our modern times with such a fortune. At those moments Dantes' face would darken, for he thought of how much harm a man could do to his enemies in our modern times with such a fortune.

Valentine, est-ce là tout ce que vous avez dans l'âme? Quoi! je vous engage ma vie, je vous donne mon âme, je vous consacre jusqu'au plus insignifiant battement de mon cÅ"ur, et quand je suis tout à vous, moi, quand je me dis tout bas que je mourrai si je vous perds, vous ne vous épouvantez pas, vous, à la seule idée d'appartenir à un autre!

Insensato! - exclamou para consigo - No dia em que resolvera vingar-me deixei que me arrancassem o coração!

Monte Cristo pressed on that pure beautiful forehead a kiss which made two hearts throb at once, the one violently, the other secretly.

Desrues was, however, I

Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

23. La isla de Montecristo

Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.

ma io, tradito, assassinato, gettato a mia volta in una tomba, ne sono uscito per grazia di Dio, e devo a Dio la mia vendetta: per questo mi manda, e sono qui.

Edmond, my friend, do not compel me to tarnish that noble and pure image reflected incessantly on the mirror of my heart.

Dantès had a heart of gold, he called all those people his friends... Poor Edmond! I suppose it's better he never found out; it would have been too hard for him to forgive them as he was dying. And no matter what they say, I'm more afraid of the curse of a dead man than the hatred of a living one.

Death to the traitors! To the gallows with Cornelius de Witt! Death! death!

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas