Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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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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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.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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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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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.