The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.
Edmond did not lose a word, but comprehended very little of what was said.
What is death? One step further into calm and two perhaps into silence.
One!” said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d’Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.
In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves.
A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God has promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart.
The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville – the counsels being thrown into the bargain.
Monsieur Morcerf,” said Danglars, pale with anger and fear, “if I find a mad dog in my path I kill it and, far from feeling guilty about it, I feel that I have rendered a service to society. If you are mad and try to bite me, I warn you that I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father is dishonored?
We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, – this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;.
Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.
Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.
There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.
He must be a vampire.
Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.
All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
I am – I am” – And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it.
Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.