What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what...
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is n...
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back a...
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever...
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm...
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
It is a bad year for kings, said Gondy, shaking his head; look at England, madame.Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France, replied the Queen.Who knows? said Gondy; such men are like...
Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. Never
In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them...
I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
I do not often laugh, sir, answered the unknown. As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...
When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
For the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.