“However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What, no wine?" said Dantes, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
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 Image
