W. W. Dumas Quotes
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
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.
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.
In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.
My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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.
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.