Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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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.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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...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 is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Wait and hope!
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.