Quotes About Count Of Monte Cristo

#1. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

#2. The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche,

Cary Elwes

#3. The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

Scott Turow

#4. 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

#5. So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.

Guillermo Del Toro

#6. 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

#7. Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.

Ally Carter

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

Alexandre Dumas

#9. You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. 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

#11. if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks

Douglas Preston

#12. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I

Pierce Brown

#13. The process of creating your dream ought to be playful, mixing and channelling your inspirational thoughts and intuitive feelings into manifesting your dream.

Christopher Dines

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

Alexandre Dumas

#15. 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

#16. Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

Erik Naggum

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

Alexander Dumas

#18. He's never stared at her like this before. Sometimes he gazed at her as if he wanted to be her undoing, but just then it was as if he wanted her to undo him.

Stephanie Garber

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

Alexander Dumas

#20. I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Robert Greene

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

Alexandre Dumas

#22. aphorism 129:

I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

Matt Berry

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

Alexander Dumas

#24. 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

#25. The sort of fellow whose funeral's orations are all on the theme of Well, that's a relief.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#26. Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

Nabeshima Naoshige

#27. Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.

C.D. Reiss

#28. I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Twyla Tharp

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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