She will follow you to the end of the world, Athos, if she recognizes you.
Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn’t touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.
I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d’Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!
En Italie, on ne paie la justice que si elle se tait, mais en France on ne la paie au contraire que quand elle parle.
The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
Oui, ma fille, dit Monte Cristo ; tu sais bien que ce n’est jamais moi qui te quitterai. Ce n’est point l’arbre qui quitte la fleur, c’est la fleur qui quitte l’arbre.
God wills it that man whom he has created, and in whose heart he has so profoundly rooted the love of life, should do all in his power to preserve that existence, which, however painful it may be, is yet always so dear.
Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.
There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.
There’s nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons,” continued the sailor;.
Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.
After about ten minutes’ silence, she suddenly said: “Is it true that you have seen much, travelled far, and suffered deeply?” “I have suffered deeply, madame,” answered Monte Cristo. “But now you are happy?” “Doubtless,” replied the Count, “since no one hears me complain.” “And has your present happiness softened your heart?” “My present happiness equals my past misery,” said the Count.
They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.
Among worldly people manner is contagious.
Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it.
I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.
The marquise heard her sentence without showing any sign of fear or weakness. When it was finished, she said to the registrar, “Will you, sir, be so kind as to read it again? I had not expected the tumbril, and I was so much struck by that that I lost the thread of what followed.
While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.
D’Artagnan obeyed like a child, without resistance or even objection, which proves that he was very positively in love.
The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.