Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count; on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real vi...
There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, t...
So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be per...
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.
On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!
Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.
Già, siete barone per i domestici, signore per i giornalisti, cittadino per i vostri elettori. Sono sfumature che si addicono assai a un governo costituzionale. Capisco perfettamente.
Flying through an army, sire, said Athos, in all countries in the world is called charging.
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atom...
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing th...
Dragostea, vedeți, așa cum o înțeleg eu, e un sacrificiu necontenit, absolut, întreg; dar nu numai sacrificiul unuia dintre cei doi implicați în relația de prietenie. Ea înseamnă abnegația desăvârșită...
But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.
But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.