Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o’clock.
She crammed so much knowledge into her head to alleviate the weight in her heart.
And now commenced the work of devastation upon the many good things with which the table was loaded.
She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.
And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!
Contempt for flowers is an offence against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offence in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.
Possibly nothing at all; 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.
Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.
Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.
Tienen algunas cosas tal aire de imposibles, que no se nos ocurre la idea de intentarlas, y hasta las evitamos instintivamente.
Yes; but one gets out of prison,” said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, “and when one gets out and one’s name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge.
You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them.
Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash.
We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.
At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.” Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner.
Trust me, do not try to cheapen things; great affairs are badly done with small means.
How singular,” murmured Maximillian; “your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary – What strange feelings are aroused by politics.
Punctuality,” said Monte Cristo, “is the politeness of kings, according to one of your sovereigns, I think; but it is not the same with travellers. However, I hope you will excuse the two or three seconds I am behindhand; five hundred leagues are not to be accomplished without some trouble, and especially in France, where, it seems, it is forbidden to beat the postilions.
Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.
If they do not bring peace, we shall give them death.