Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

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

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, -Wait and hope.

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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

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

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

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

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

Nothing succeeds like success.

The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.

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

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.

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

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.

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

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

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Man does not steal, he conquers

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

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

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

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

Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.

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

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

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

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

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

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86, 400 seconds many things can be done.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

Fool that I am, " said he, "that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

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

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

All for one and one for all.

She is not my mistress, ' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing, ' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir, ' replied Dantes.