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Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Tom Reiss

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unraveling of Charles's sham fortune, which would have devastating effects on his daughter and her unsuspecting husband, I couldn't help thinking that one of the interesting things about Dumas's villains is that, while greedy and unprincipled themselves, they produce children who can be innocent and decent. This was something that the writer understood very well from his own family. — Tom Reiss

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness! — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

I am - I am" - And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

It was a human storm, composed of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

we have both blood in our veins which we wish to shed - that is our mutual guaranty. Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Denis Kitchen

As Capp would remember, his paternal grandfather's early years in the store were characterized by success and expansion - until, that is, he discovered the works of Alexandre Dumas. To that point, he'd read virtually nothing but the Talmud, but he quickly determined that the swashbuckling adventures described in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and other Dumas novels were much more exciting. He was hooked. Capp recalled seeing a photograph of his grandfather, cutting quite the figure with his long, Russian-style hair and beard, seated outside his store, reading Dumas rather than waiting on customers. He went out of business, his store purchased by creditors. — Denis Kitchen

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Sir," suddenly exclaimed the countess, after their walk had continued ten minutes in silence, "is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Wait, and hope (The Count of Monte Cristo) — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

Count,' said Morrel, 'you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced world than ours.'

'There is something true in what you say,' said the count, with that smile which made him so handsome; 'I have descended from a planet called grief. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, "How do they execute at Rome?" and you reply, "I do not know"! — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Would it be an indiscretion to ask to see those precious pills?" continued Beauchamp, hoping to take him at a disadvantage.
"No, Monsieur," returned the count; and he drew from his pocket a marvelous bonbonniere, formed out of a single emerald, and closed by a golden lid, which unscrewed and gave passage to a small of greenish color, and about the size of a pea."
... "this is a magnificent emerald, and the largest I have ever seen," said Chateu-Renaud ...
"I had three similar ones," returned Monte Cristo; "I gave one to the Grand Signior, who mounted it in his saber; another to our holy father the pope, who had it set in his tiara, opposite to nearly as large, though not so fine a one, given by Emperor Napolen to his predecessor Pius VII. I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended it for."
Every one looked at Monte Cristo with astonishment ... — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678). — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you! — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexander Dumas

A brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world. — Alexander Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man - man, who God created in his own image - man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbour - man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts - what is his first cry when he hears his fellowman is saved? A blasphemy. Honour to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation! — Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas