Alexandre Dumas Quote

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open...

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, th...

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Rosamund, taken hold of by an emotion stronger than her own--hurried along in a new movement which gave all things some new, awful, undefined aspect--could find no words, but involuntarily she put her...