Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it.”

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452. “But he isn’t dead?’ ‘No, he isn’t, as you can very well see. Instead of striking him between the sixth and seventh left rib, as your compatriots usually do, you must have struck higher or lower; and these lawyers, you know, are not easy to kill off.”

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453. “The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D’Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache. Then.”

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454. “After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.”

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455. “Die! No, no!’ He cried. ‘It was not worth living so long, and suffering so much, to die now. Death was welcome previously when I made a resolution to meet it, many years ago. But now it would truly be conceding too much to my miserable fate. No, I want to live, I want to struggle to the end. No, I want to recover the happiness that has been taken away from me. I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.”

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456. “Come, come. Enough of poison. Now that my heart is full of it, let us go and find the antidote.”

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457. “In any case, even the most corrupt of us finds it hard to believe in evil unless it is based on some interest. We reject the idea of harm done for no cause and without gain as anomalous.”

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458. “I should be much displeased at this, not because of any loss that it might occasion, but because I should no longer have the assurance that, whenever I wish, I can separate myself from the rest of the world.”

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459. “And that you alone, among the men whom you do not recognize as your brothers- for you have said so,” observed Villefort, in a tone that faltered somewhat- “you alone are perfect.”

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460. “Nineteen years of light to reflect upon in eternal darkness!”

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461. “Lucullus dines with Lucullus,’ that is quite sufficient.”

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462. “Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances contained in two covers of yellow paper, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even thought they be gilded like yourself.”

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463. “Commend me to the cardinal,′ said Milady. ‘Commend me to Satan,’ replied Rochefort.”

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464. “D’Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.”

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465. “He leaned over the dying man and whispered in his ear, ‘I am – ’ And his lips uttered a name so softly that he himself seemed to be afraid to hear it.”

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466. “Did you not hear what I said, sir? I told you there was fire in my sentence. And though it is only after death that my body is to be burnt, it will always be a terrible disgrace on my memory. I am saved the pain of being burnt alive, and thus, perhaps, saved from a death of despair, but the shamefulness is the same, and it is that I think of.”

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467. “There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.”

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468. “Towards the beginning of the year 1838, two young men belonging to the first society of Paris, the Vicomte Albert de Morcerf and the Baron Franz d’Epinay, were at Florence.”

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469. “Sir, you are punctual, and I cannot complain that you have broken your promise; but oh, how the time has dragged, and how long it has seemed before the clock struck six!”

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470. “She was in tears; and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like those meteors which are seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.”

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471. “A man is always endowed by Heaven with too much for his own happiness, and just enough to make him miserable.”

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472. “Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.”

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473. “God wills it that man whom he has created, and in whose heart he has so profoundly rooted the love of life, should do all in his power to preserve that existence, which, however painful it may be, is yet always so dear.”

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474. “Ci vuole la sciagura per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell’intelligenza umana; ci vuole la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.”

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475. “The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed for each other!”

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476. “Good fortune is like the palaces of the enchanted isles, the gates of which were guarded by dragons.”

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477. “Give me full details, if you please, and above all begin at the beginning. I like order in all things.”

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478. “At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.” Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner.”

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479. “God has preserved us hitherto, God will preserve us still.”

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480. “There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who.”

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481. “Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.”

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482. “I acted hastily towards him. Haste is a poor counsellor: I acted wrongly.”

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483. “Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen,” said Buckingham; “the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.”

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484. “Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls – and I have just discovered that mine is of the number – a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.”

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485. “D’Artagnan is right,” said Athos. “Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D’Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.”

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486. “Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream. But.”

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487. “You know very well that it will never be I who will leave you. It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”

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488. “But why be discouraged? It would be asking too much of Providence if you were to expect to succeed at the first attempt.”

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489. “Paid the last debt of nature.”

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490. “Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.”

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491. “Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn’t touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.”

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492. “Obsequies, madame, are for those who survive, not for the dead.”

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493. “Then he raised his eyes towards the ceiling, but withdrew then, immediately, as if he feared the roof would open and reveal to his distressed view that second tribunal called heaven, and that other judge named God.”

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494. “I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.”

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495. “Really, Emmanuel,’ said Julie, ’wouldn’t you think that all these rich people, so happy only a short while ago, had built their fortunes, their happiness and their social position, while forgetting to allow for the wicked genie; and that this genie, like the wicked fairy in Perrault’s stories1 who is not invited to some wedding or christening, had suddenly appeared to take revenge for that fatal omission?”

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496. “All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

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497. “Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous? – that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire? – that which we cannot obtain.”

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498. “Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.”

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499. “I never will leave you, for I am sure I could not exist without you.”

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500. “And then he gave himself over entirely to his feelings of happiness. He was certainly no longer going to be alone, he might perhaps even be free. The worst case, should he remain a prisoner, was to have a companion: captivity shared is only semi-captivity. Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.”

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