Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

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.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86, 400 seconds many things can be done.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

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

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

She is not my mistress, ' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing, ' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir, ' replied Dantes.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Ah, Caderousse, ' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on, ' said Caderousse.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'".

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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.

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

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.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.