Alexandre Dumas (padre): Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

“For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”

“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.”

“… know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more”

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”

“All for one, one for all, that is our motto.”

“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.”

“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.

"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

“Pain, thou art not an evil”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

“Order is the key to all problems.”

“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

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

“Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”