Monsieur Morrel Quotes & Sayings

Have you no friends who could help you in these circumstances?' Morrel smiled sadly and said: 'In business, Monsieur, as you very well know, one has no friends, only associates. — Alexandre Dumas

As we have seen, Villefort belonged to the nobility of the town and M. Morrel to the plebeian part of it: the former was an extreme Royalist, the latter suspected of harbouring Bonapartist sympathies. Villefort looked contemptuously at Morrel and answered coldly: 'You know, Monsieur, that one can be mild in one's private life, honest in one's business dealings and skilled in one's work, yet at the same time, politically speaking, be guilty of great crimes. — Alexandre Dumas