What, no wine?
The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment.What is it?Impossibility.
Speak, Madame; speak, queen, said Buckingham. The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed...
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dre...
Listen,' said Morrel; 'it is not the first time you have contemplated our present position, which is a serious and urgent one; I do not think it is a moment to give way to useless sorrow; leave that f...
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: 'Cherchez la femme'.
I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.''Why?''Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance.
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.''Do you mean to say that if I left you---''I'd die, yes.''Then you love me?
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
He has not recovered the blow? said he to Athos.He is struck to death.Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul is of a tempered nature. Around all hearts as noble as his, there is a second envelope th...
God is always the last resource.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.
My opinion is, that all these old podestas, these ancient condottieri, — for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces, — my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions...
It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.
Il mio regno è grande come il mondo, perché non sono né italiano né francese né indiano né americano né spagnolo: io sono cosmopolita. Nessun paese può dire di avermi visto nascere; Dio solo sa quale...