Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...

How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary ...

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, an...

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of your...

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wa...

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...

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

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, ...

You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to ...

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last ...

The kingdoms of kings are confined, either by mountains or rivers, or by a change in customs or by a...

Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man i...

There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers ...

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and ...

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I...

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they...

As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics extermi...

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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

All for one and one for all.

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in ...

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men could...

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious ...

The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.

You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. E...

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and ho...

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...

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

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all ...

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity;...

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and ...

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which preven...

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs...

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The...

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

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain;...

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emot...

Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men...

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were ...

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leav...

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

Nothing succeeds like success.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an i...

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, i...

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it...

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless t...

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties ...

Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ec...

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being incl...

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in youn...

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minde...

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in o...

All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect a...

The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in ...

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait...

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is ...

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibac...

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead...

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble dee...

My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our ca...

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understand...

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects ...

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given y...

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Go," said the count deliberately, "go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to...