Il y avait autour de la table cette hilarité bruyante et cette liberté individuelle qui accompagnent, chez les gens de condition inférieure, la fin des repas. Ceux qui étaient mécontents de leur place...
I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time could be seen dark flashes of misanthropy and hatred.
He then said something in Arabic to Ali, who made a sign of obedience and withdrew, but not to any distance. As to Franz a strange transformation had taken place in him. All the bodily fatigue of the...
Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.
Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.
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.
All for one and one for all.
A man is always in a hurry to be happy.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea duri...
What despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!