Top 100 Quotes About Alexandre Dumas
#1. I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
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#2. So, how bad of an idea is it to go there? On a scale of cooking-whithout-a-shirt to being-an-evil-priest-in-an-Alexandre-Dumas-book?
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#3. Your excellencies' wishes; only, I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastres a day.
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#4. When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.
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#5. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?
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#6. But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
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#7. The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction
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#8. But he found him as he had seen him six weeks earlier, that is to say calm, firm and full of the distant good manners that make up the most impenetrable of barriers separating a well-bred man from one of the people.
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#9. Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody." "Ah, ah!
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#10. ( ... ) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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#11. She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.
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#14. Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.
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#15. Although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
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#16. Well, we're all mortal...and the old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.
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#17. What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors!
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#18. What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
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#19. Did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them, - I tacked.
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#20. Have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me." "Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first
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#21. And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
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#22. Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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#23. Believe me, when a woman loves a man, you do not win her heart by crossing swords with him.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.
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#27. Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls - and I have just discovered that mine is of the number - a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.
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#28. 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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#29. Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
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#30. If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold."
And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged," said Bussy.
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#31. 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.
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#32. The subjects which he has chosen, however, are of both historic and dramatic importance, and they have the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.
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#33. Take care, my worthy host," said Albert, "better is a sure enemy to well.
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#34. The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
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#35. 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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#36. In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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#37. Flying through an army, sire," said Athos, "in all countries in the world is called charging.
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#39. 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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#40. The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.
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#41. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
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#42. could you have so little strength that you take pride in displaying your sorrow
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#43. I hate the English
they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.
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#44. 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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#45. Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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#48. Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
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#49. It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
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#50. Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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#51. [L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.
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#52. That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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#55. Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)
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#56. I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter - yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!
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#57. We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.
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#59. 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.
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#60. If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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#61. Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge
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#62. Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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#63. Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, -
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#64. 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!
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#65. There is known to be a particular deity for drunkards and lovers.
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#67. for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.
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#68. I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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#69. It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.
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#70. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who
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#71. I - drunk!" said Caderousse; "well that's a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Pere Pamphile, more wine!" and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.
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#72. 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.
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#73. all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' - Your
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#75. Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
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#77. I have looked at it with all possible attention," said Dantes, "and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.
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#78. All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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#79. 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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#80. There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons," continued the sailor;
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#81. Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.
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#82. And who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these
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#83. 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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#84. Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.
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#85. Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
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#86. These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after
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#87. I never will leave you, for I am sure I could not exist without you.
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#89. we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.
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#90. On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born,
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#91. No matter; God wants Man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preserve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.
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#92. Passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.
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#93. The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville - the counsels being thrown into the bargain.
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#94. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.
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#95. Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think.
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#96. In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.
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#97. The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment."
"What is it?"
"Impossibility.
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#98. Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.
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#99. We are always in a hurry to be happy ... ; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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#100. 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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