Alexandra Dumas > Quotes

“Nay, be not discouraged. Would it not be expecting too much to hope to succeed at your first attempt? Why not try to find an opening in another direction to that which had so unfortunately failed?”
― Alexandra Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo: Annotated

“You know as well as I do, my boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.”
― Alexandra Dumas, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Annotated