Top 40 Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everything was believed except the truth.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

2. “The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

3. “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

4. “Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”

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5. “Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

6. “El amor verdadero siempre nos hace mejores; cualquiera sea la mujer que lo inspira.”

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7. “The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

8. “Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

9. “It is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for anyone to speak a language that has not been properly mastered. Since I am not yet of an age to invent, I must make do with telling a tale.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

10. “One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

11. “In my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men, as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters, with the exception of the heroine, are still alive.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

12. “One day, as I was going to the Prefecture for a passport, I saw in one of the neighbouring streets a poor girl who was being marched along by two policemen. I do not know what was the matter. All I know is that she was weeping bitterly as she kissed an infant only a few months old, from whom her arrest was to separate her. Since that day I have never dared to despise a woman at first sight.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

13. “No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me.”

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14. “We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.”

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15. “Les femmes sont impitoyables avec les gens qu’elles n’aiment pas.”

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16. “Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.”

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17. “We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”

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18. “Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.”

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19. “The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.”

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20. “Les hommes ont la rage de vouloir apprendre ce qui doit leur faire de la peine.”

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21. “The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

22. “Your father embraced me once more. I felt two grateful tears on my forehead, like the baptism of my past faults, and at the moment when I consented to give myself up to another man I glowed with pride at the thought of what I was redeeming by this new fault.”

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23. “How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life.”

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24. “Love gives one a kind of goodness.”

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25. “Y yo la amaba tanto, que, en medio de los transportes de su amor febril, me preguntaba si no iba a matarla para que no perteneciera nunca a otro.”

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26. “How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants!”

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27. “Their two lives are now as one; no sooner is their affection sealed than they feel as though it has always existed, and everything that has gone before is blotted from the memory of the.”

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28. “Inalta si subtire pana la exagerare, ea detinea in cel mai inalt grad arta de a face sa dispara aceasta scapare a naturii, printr-o simpla aranjare a lucrurilor pe care le imbraca.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

29. “It is always difficult to console a sorrow that is unknown to one...”

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30. “We men are built like that, and it is very fortunate that the imagination lends so much poetry to the senses, and that the desires of the body make thus much concession to the dreams of the soul.”

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31. “Men have an obsession for wanting to know things that will upset them.”

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32. “If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”

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33. “Copilul e mic, dar in el e cuprins omul; creierul este stramt, dar el adaposteste gandirea; ochiul nu este decat un punct, dar el cuprinde in privirea sa orizontul.”

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34. “Cu cat o priveam mai mult pe aceasta femeie, cu atat ma fermeca mai tare. Era de o frumusete rapitoare. Chiar si trupul ei slab mi se parea o incantare.”

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35. “Si intr-adevar, ce poate fi mai trist decat sa vezi imbatranirea in viciu, mai cu seama la o femeie? Ea nu mai are nici o demnitate si nu mai inspira nici un interes. Vesnica parere de rau, nu pentru calea rea urmata, ci pentru socotelile gresite si a banilor prost folositi, este unul dintre cele mai triste lucruri pe care le poti auzi.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

36. “Margarita era bonita; pero, lo mismo que suena mucho la ida rebuscada de esas mujeres, suena su muerte poco. Son soles que se ponen como se levantan, sin ruido.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

37. “I dreamed incredible dreams of the future; I said to myself that she should owe to me her moral and physical recovery, that I should spend my whole life with her, and that her love should make me happier than all the maidenly loves in the world.”

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38. “Since “there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance,” let us give joy to heaven. Heaven will render it back to us with usury.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

39. “Cercai un mezzo per riavvicinarmi a lei, un mezzo che il mio amor proprio avesse potuto attribuire a caso, se fossi riuscito nel mio intento.”

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40. “In zilele noastrre, cand ai douazeci si cinci de ani, lacrimile sunt un lucru atat de pretios, incat nu i le poti darui primei venite.”

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41. “A month of love like that, and there would have remained only the corpse of heart or body.”

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42. “Cata dreptate aveau cei din vechime, care atribuiau unul si acelasi zeu negustorilor si hotilor!”

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43. “Then I met you, young, ardent, happy, and I tried to make you the man I had longed for in my noisy solitude. What I loved in you was not the man who was, but the man who was going to be. You do not accept the position, you reject it as unworthy of you; you are an ordinary lover. Do like the others; pay me, and say no more about it.”

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44. “I shall never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite. It is perhaps the thirst of the fever, a sleepless night’s dream, a moment’s delirium; but though I were to become a Trappist, like M. de Rance’, after having seen her, I will see her.”

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45. “You know what it is to be in love with a woman, you know how it cuts short the days, and with what loving listlessness one drifts into the morrow. You know that forgetfulness of everything which comes of a violent confident, reciprocated love. Every being who is not the beloved one seems a useless being in creation. One regrets having cast scraps of one’s heart to other women, and one can not believe in the possibility of ever pressing another hand than that which one holds between one’s hands.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

46. “One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one can make somebody so happy.”

— Alexandre Dumas-fils