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Alexandre Dumas Quotes | Quotes said by Alexandre Dumas

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #1

    -Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos?
    -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto.
    -Pero, ¿adónde vais?
    -Al mar

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #2

    ...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.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #3

    ...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #4

    «Fernand! – gridò Montecristo, – dei miei cento nomi non avrei bisogno di dirtene che uno solo per fulminarti; ma questo nome tu lo indovini, non è vero? o piuttosto te lo ricordi? perché malgrado tutte le mie sofferenze, tutte le mie torture, oggi ti mostro un viso ringiovanito dalla felicità della vendetta, un viso che devi aver visto molto spesso in sogno dopo il tuo matrimonio…. con Mercedes, la mia fidanzata!» Il generale, con la testa rovesciata all’indietro, le mani tese, lo sguardo fisso, divorò in silenzio quella terribile visione; poi, trovato un punto d’appoggio sulla parete, scivolò lentamente fino alla porta, dalla quale uscì all’indietro lasciandosi sfuggire questo solo grido lugubre, lamentoso, straziante: «Edmond Dantès!».

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #5

    A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #6

    A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #7

    All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #8

    And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #9

    At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.
    It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #10

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

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #11

    Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #12

    Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #13

    Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #14

    Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #15

    But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #16

    C’est que l’on a souvent pour ennemis des gens qu’on voudrait avoir pour amis.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #17

    Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #18

    Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early
    paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked
    lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #19

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

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #20

    Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #21

    Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #22

    Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #23

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

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #24

    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.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #25

    For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #26

    Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #27

    God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #28

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

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #29

    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.

  • Alexandre Dumas Quote #30

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

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