“ I intend that my last work shall be a cookbook composed of memories and desires. ---Alexander Dumas, 1869, as quoted in Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James and Kay Salter” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell.… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations. Besides the pleasure there is always… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“No, certainly not. There I should find people who would try to force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend,… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
D'Artagnan was amazes to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nation and the lives of men are suspended. — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“Count,' said Morrel, 'you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
