Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.