Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour? inquired the count; only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements.
Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as...
Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you.Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal...
God is always the last resource.
Geceleyin bütün kediler gridir.
Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan
Consider that, if you talk, if you babble, you will sacrifice the head of your master, who has so much confidence in your fidelity that he has answered for you to us. But remember also that if by any...
Come here, Grimaud, said Athos. To punish you for having spoken without leave my friend, you must eat this piece of paper: then, to reward you for the service which you will have rendered us, you shal...
And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.
За всяко зло има два цяра: времето и мълчанието
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!
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.