Patricia Reding > Patricia's Quotes

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
― Terry Goodkind

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.”
― Terry Goodkind

“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.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“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

“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. ”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, V1

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”
― alexandre dumas

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
― Alexandre Dumas

“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables