Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is… — 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
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly.… — 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
