Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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I'm a tooth person... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
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This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.
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I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that it has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. As an architectural masterpiece, nothing could be added or substracted from it.
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What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
