Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. 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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

52. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

53. “Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

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54. “Happiness is egotistical.”

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55. “Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

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56. “Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

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57. “What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!”

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58. “True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

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59. “Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

— Alexandre Dumas

60. “D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

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61. “Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

— Alexandre Dumas

62. “Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

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63. “You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

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64. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

65. “Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”

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66. “You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”

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67. “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 my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.”

— Alexandre Dumas

68. “Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.”

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69. “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

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70. “God is always the last resource.”

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71. “Toewijding. Een mooi woord voor streven dat op hoop is gebaseerd.”

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72. “The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.”

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73. “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

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74. “It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”

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75. “Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”

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76. “Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.”

— Alexandre Dumas

77. “Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.”

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78. “Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

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79. “Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.”

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80. “The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.”

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81. “So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.”

— Alexandre Dumas

82. “Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”

— Alexandre Dumas

83. “Today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies.”

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84. “Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.”

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85. “Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.”

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86. “There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”

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87. “When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.”

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88. “Order is the key to all problems.”

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89. “If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

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90. “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”

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91. “Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l’extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l’extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre.”

— Alexandre Dumas

92. “The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.”

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93. “We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.”

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94. “So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

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95. “Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.”

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96. “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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97. “I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.”

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98. “The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”

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99. “In this world, all – men, women, and kings – must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.”

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100. “People in general,” he said, “only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”

— Alexandre Dumas