Notable/Famous Quotes from The Count of Monte Cristo

“I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another’s.”

“Edmond Dantès, I arrest you in the name of the law!”

“I am innocent.”

“I know that human justice is insufficient to console us; she can give blood in return for blood, that is all.”

“Had I to avenge myself, it is not thus I would take revenge.”

“God made this infant the instrument of our punishment.”

“There is a Providence; there is a God, of whom you are a striking proof, as you lie in utter despair, denying him, while I stand before you, rich, happy, safe.”

“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.”

“I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.”

“What am I?—the law. Has the law any eyes to witness your grief? Has the law ears to be melted by your sweet voice?”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’”