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The Count of Monte Cristo quotes

Alexandre Dumas

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“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but 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.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“remember that what has once been done may be done again.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and...” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“He was rather too pale, certainly; but then, you know, paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Uncertainty is worse than all.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“God is always the last resource.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish . . . know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of...” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“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, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Nothing is ever so firmly impressed on the mind as the memory of our early childhood” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I should be no artist if I had not some fancies.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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