The Count of Monte Cristo Quotes

“For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:timesilence

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:timememorypresent

“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:freedomaction

“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:freedomindependence

“God is always the last resource.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:Godhope

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

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:Godjudgement

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:heartpain

“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hearttalkingfeelings

“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:strength

“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:powermoney