All Alexandre Dumas Quotes
- ...remember that what has once been done may be done again. Been
- ...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that… All
- 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… Atoms
- The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could… According
- (...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree. Fall
- You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. Devotion
- I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me. Amuse
- I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what… Adore
- Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another, Ah
- We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude. Dantes
- In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics… All
- 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… Addressed
- God is always the last resource. God
- in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language… Firsts
- Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it. Beside
- 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… Compare
- There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever. Body
- 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! Despair
- 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… All
- Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? All
- 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… Always Made
- 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… Almighty
- Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. Ah
- The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted. All
- 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… Farewell