Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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.
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan
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?
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
