“Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical ,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,--once again review thy past life… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It is my duty to watch over your life, madame, and I will watch." "But do you understand the mission you are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“This piece of iron which he had been allowed to keep aroused a more profound wave of gratitude towards heaven in his… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
