Alexandre Dumas: Quotes about heart

Alexandre Dumas was French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on heart.
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“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Variant: What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“… The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground… they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us…”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 4 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_4 <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Be kind, aim for my heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Variant: ... for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.