Alexandre Dumas Quotes
-
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
→ -
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
→ -
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
→ -
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
→ -
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
→ -
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
→ -
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
→ -
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
→ -
Happiness is egotistical.
→ -
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
→ -
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
→ -
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?
→ -
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
→ -
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
→ -
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
→ -
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
→ -
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
→ -
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
→ -
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!
→ -
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
→ -
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.
→ -
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
→ -
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
→ -
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
→ -
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
→ -
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
→ -
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.
→ -
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
→ -
......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
→ -
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.
→
Related Authors
-
Alexandre Dumas-fils Writer -
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Military person -
Jules Verne Novelist -
Christoph Waltz Actor -
Arthur Conan Doyle Physician -
Gustave Flaubert Writer -
Guy de Maupassant Writer -
J. R. R. Tolkien Writer -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
-
Emile Zola Writer -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Alexander Pushkin Author -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Louis XIV Monarch -
Walter Scott Baronet Scott -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Honore de Balzac Novelist