“Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at… — 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
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots… — 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
