It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“For hearts which have long suffered, happiness is like dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb this… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
