Top 100 Alexandre Dumas Quotes
#1. The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction
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#2. I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.
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#3. Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
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#4. 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.
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#5. M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.
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#6. I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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#7. Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
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#10. There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.
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#11. Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
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#12. Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
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#13. My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.
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#15. And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.
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#16. so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it.
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#18. Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life
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#19. Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.
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#20. Oh, thank me again!" said the count; "tell me till you are weary, that I have restored you to happiness; you do not know how much I require this assurance.
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#22. there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself.
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#23. Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.'
'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.
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#25. there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.
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#26. Already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The
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#27. Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
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#28. 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.
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#29. It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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#30. Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.'
'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.
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#31. Parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.
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#32. lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;
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#33. For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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#34. Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
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#35. Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!
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#36. Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
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#37. This being understood, let us proceed with our history.
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#38. Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
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#39. Hold! I must have lost it," said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. "But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!
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#40. Why, when a man has friends, they are not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water unnecessarily!
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#41. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.
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#43. I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.
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#44. It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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#45. We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But
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#46. I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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#47. Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul.
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#48. Moment," said d'Artagnan. "I will not abandon Buckingham thus. He gave us
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#49. There are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
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#51. A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
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#52. How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.
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#53. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes
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#54. Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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#55. Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!
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#56. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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#57. You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There
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#58. But he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.
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#59. To seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.
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#60. D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.
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#61. When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I
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#62. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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#63. What melancholy thought,' said the King, 'can possibly reach your heart when I place mine as a rampart before it?
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#64. Oh," said the count, "I only know two things which destroy the appetite, - grief - and as I am happy to see you very cheerful, it is not that - and love. Now after what you told me this morning of your heart, I may believe" -
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#66. Young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers. It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair
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#67. Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.
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#68. Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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#69. Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear d'Artagnan, MORBLEU! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let
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#70. Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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#71. If you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal.
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#72. Armed to the teeth?" "He had not even a knitting-needle.
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#74. the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto
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#75. Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
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#77. Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
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#79. Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live
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#80. So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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#81. He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
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#83. 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.
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#84. The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Human inventions march from the
complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
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#87. The worthy officer had just given birth to this high-sounding adverb ...
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#88. So like Athos." thought Aramis; "That which is actually good never alters.
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#89. D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.
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#90. The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
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#91. In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.
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#92. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." "Never
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#93. 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.
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#95. You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them
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#96. Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!
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#97. No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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#98. Robin Buss is a writer and translator who contributes regularly to The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement and other papers.
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#100. 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?
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