The Count of Monte Cristo Quotes

“which sometimes happen to people on whom misfortune has exhausted its ingenuity”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“how many times have i wanted a princely fortune to purchase a million secrets from a million men, so that i might discover mine in theirs.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Per quanto la gente sia buona, si stanca ben presto di vedere le persone che la rattristano.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Dantès era sulla strada che voleva percorrere e che tendeva alla mèta a cui anelava: rendere il cuore insensibile”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Ciascuno è di ostacolo a colui che gli viene dopo o che gli cammina a lato”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Dantès parlava per sentire la propria voce: aveva tentato di parlare anche quand'era solo, ma allora aveva paura di se stesso”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“El gozo para los corazones que han sufrido mucho tiempo es lo que el rocío para las tierras abrasadas por los ardores del sol; corazones y tierra absorben aquella lluvia bienhechora que cae sobre ellos y no se
pierde una gota.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“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. If you are a practical man and gold is your God, then taste this, and the mines of Peru, Gujarat and Golconda will be open to you. If you are a man of imagination, a poet, then taste this too, and the boundaries of the possible will vanish, the fields of infinity will be open and you will walk through them, free in heart, free in mind, in the limitless pasture of reverie. If you are ambitious and seek earthly glory, then you too can taste this and in an hour you will be a king, not the king of some little kingdom buried away in a corner of Europe, like France, Spain or England, but king of the world, king of the universe, king of creation. Your throne will be raised up on the mountain where Satan took Jesus. And, without having to pay him homage, without having to kiss his claw, you will be the sovereign master of all the kingdoms on earth. Aren't you tempted by my offer? Tell me, is it not an easy thing to do, since there is nothing to do but that? Look.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Allo of human wisdom is contained in these two words, wait and hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo