Quotes from The Black Tulip

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity. ”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“Misfortune does not help us to believe. ”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“فكّر كورنيليوس: " وهكذا ينتهي كل شيء. لن أستطيع منح اسمي إلى طفل أو الى زهرة أو الى كتاب, و هي ثلاثة أشياء يُذكر بها المرء.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by that slow fever which creeps over the heart and changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the other and ever born anew.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“شعر كورنيليوس بطرف الفأس يلامس رقبته. لكن – ماذا حصل؟ إذ بقلى يرى الأشجار و السماء الزرقاء, و طل يسمع صدى أصوات الناس الكثيرة- كما النحل في الصيف.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“نظرت روزا الى الأمير و نظقت عيناها "أترى!" رغم أن شفتيها لم تتحركا.
و تطلّع الأمير إلى روزا و نظقت عيناه: "كوني هادئة. انتظري”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate?" said the ancients. The difference only between the eagle and the vulture,—serenity or restlessness.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“...by degrees they waxed more and more angry by their own shouts, and as they were not able to understand how any one could have courage without showing it by cries, they attributed the silence of the dragoons to pusillanimity, and advanced one step towards the prison, with all the turbulent mob following in their wake.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“To despise flowers is to offend God.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“Սակայն, երբ ինքը սատանան է խառնվում մարդկանց գործերին, ինչ-որ անհատի կամ մի ամբողջ պետություն կործանելու համար, շատ քիչ է պատահում, երբ նրա ձեռքի տակ չի գտնվում համապատասխան սրիկա, որի ականջին արած մի փսփսոցը բավական է, որպեսզի նա գործի անցնի։”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“... մեծ հոգիները իրենց կյանքի ծանր վայրկյաններին զարմանալի հենարան են գտնում փիլիսոթայության մեջ։”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“Ոչինչ զարյացած մարդու համար այնքան տհաճ չէ, որքան այն, երբ նրա զայրույթին պատասխանում են լրիվ անտարբերությամբ։”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“Ամեն մի կարգին սրիկա, որ սրել է իր չար զենքը, ցանկանում է դրանով գոնե ինչ-որ մեկին մի լավ վիրավորել։”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

“Մարդ-բանտապահն ավելի քիչ գիտակցություն ուներ, քան այն կողպեքը, որով նա փակում է դուռը, և ավելի կարծր էր, քան այն երկաթը, որով նա ամրացնում էր դռները”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Black Tulip

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