Tears Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

9 Tears quotes by Alexandre Dumas

Dumas’s short thoughts on tears read like a scene from a novel, where emotion drives the plot forward. This concise collection showcases his flair for the dramatic and the heartfelt.

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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to…

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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!

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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the…

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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in…

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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of…

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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which…

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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in…

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“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot…

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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

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“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for…

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“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force…

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“A man is always in a hurry to be happy.”

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“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.”

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“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.”

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“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to…

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“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…

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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

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“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good…

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“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.”

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“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.”

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