Dumas Monte Cristo Quotes

#1. Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.

Alexander Dumas

#2. I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

#3. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Remember that with every rejection comes success because it's not in the results, but in the process of learning to write that makes you the best writer you can be at this moment in time.

P.B. Azeltine

#5. MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

Alexandre Dumas

#6. It was a human storm, composed of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays.

Alexander Dumas

#7. Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

#8. Wait, and hope (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Alexandre Dumas

#9. Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now, but for now, I have to keep making them.

Lina Wertmuller

#10. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

Selena Gomez

#11. You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

Alexandre Dumas

#13. How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

Alexandre Dumas

#14. Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.

Christine Feehan

#15. I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).

Alexandre Dumas

#16. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#17. My brother told me to pick him a winner.
So I dug up my nose,
And pulled out a chicken dinner.

Drew Bialko

#18. No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

#19. When we 'know' what is totally unacceptable..we learn to say 'No'..
Knowing the 'No' gives clarity about what to say 'Yes' to..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#20. She wore her scars
as her best attire.
A stunning dress
made of hellfire.

Daniel Saint

#21. Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.

Alexander Dumas

#22. Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, "How do they execute at Rome?" and you reply, "I do not know"!

Alexander Dumas

#23. There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

Alexandre Dumas

#24. A brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world.

Alexander Dumas

#25. It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

Chris Weitz

#26. we have both blood in our veins which we wish to shed - that is our mutual guaranty. Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is.

Alexandre Dumas

#27. Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.

Alexandre Dumas

#28. I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Greg Wise

#29. I am - I am" - And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it.

Alexandre Dumas

#30. Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Alexandre Dumas

#31. Four fabulous days and three glorious nights. More than that, Victoria thought. Fabulous days and glorious nights for the rest of my life.

Jennifer Crusie

#32. We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Casey Stengel

#33. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

John Wesley

#34. As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.

Alexander Dumas

#35. Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.

Alexander Dumas