Quotes

Here is a list of my favorite quotes.

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  • Chris Dantes

    There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the… comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
    – The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Chris Dantes

    Athos, in his hours of gloom-and these hours were frequent-was extinguished as to the whole of the luminous portion of him, and his brilliant side disappeared as into profound darkness.

    Then the demigod vanished; he remained scarcely a man. His head hanging down, his eye dull, his speech slow and painful… In exchange for his silence Athos drank enough for four, and without appearing to be otherwise affected by wine than by a more marked constriction of the brow and by a deeper sadness.
    – The Three Musketeers

  • Chris Dantes

    Why is it that… I have never had a single grief that I could not bend beneath me, a single vexation that I could not surmount? It is because you introduced me to the only friend that consoles us alike by day and by night – the friend who is ever at our side, running up to help us at the first sigh, pouring in his balm at the first tear, – it was you who made me to know “work”.
    – Alexandre Dumas

  • Chris Dantes

    I’ve always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks.
    – Dennis Miller

  • Chris Dantes

    I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow.
    — Tyrion Lannister (A Game of Thrones)