It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

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

Order is the key to all problems.