"He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee."

"She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about."

"Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."

"We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you."

"If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful."

"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"It is only the dead who do not return."

"Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world."

"Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum."

"In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all."

"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."

"I am a Count, Not a Saint."

"I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away."

"And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?"

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

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"...remember that what has once been done may be done again."

"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall."

"You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"There are no more worlds to conquer!"

"But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."