So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“My dearest,’ said Valentine, ‘has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words –… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself… — 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
