Alexandre Dumas Quotes About Pleasure
-
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
→ -
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.
→ -
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
→ -
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
→
Related Authors
-
Alexandre Dumas-fils Writer -
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Military person -
Jules Verne Novelist -
Christoph Waltz Actor -
Arthur Conan Doyle Physician -
Gustave Flaubert Writer -
Guy de Maupassant Writer -
J. R. R. Tolkien Writer -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
-
Emile Zola Writer -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Alexander Pushkin Author -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Louis XIV Monarch -
Walter Scott Baronet Scott -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Honore de Balzac Novelist