Alexandre Dumas Believe Quotations

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…