Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.”

— Alexandre Dumas

102. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

104. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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106. “My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

108. “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

109. “Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope’.”

— Alexandre Dumas

110. “It is only the dead who do not return.”

— Alexandre Dumas

111. “Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.”

— Alexandre Dumas

112. “Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet ’em on your way down.”

— Alexandre Dumas

113. “People ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

114. “Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.”

— Alexandre Dumas

115. “The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. 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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

116. “I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.”

— Alexandre Dumas

117. “A good deed is never lost.”

— Alexandre Dumas

118. “Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.”

— Alexandre Dumas

119. “Admire yourself and others will admire you’, a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: ‘Know thyself’, which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.”

— Alexandre Dumas

120. “Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

122. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

123. “To despise flowers is to offend God.”

— Alexandre Dumas

124. “Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.”

— Alexandre Dumas

125. “Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me.”

— Alexandre Dumas

126. “There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.”

— Alexandre Dumas

127. “So, do live and be happy, children dear to my heart, and never forget that, until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’!”

— Alexandre Dumas

128. “Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

— Alexandre Dumas

129. “Danaro e santita, Meta della meta.”

— Alexandre Dumas

130. “Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- “Wait and hope”?”

— Alexandre Dumas

131. “Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.”

— Alexandre Dumas

132. “I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.”

— Alexandre Dumas

133. “It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

— Alexandre Dumas

134. “Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady.”

— Alexandre Dumas

135. “What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

— Alexandre Dumas

136. “Chi ha compagno ha padrone – ‘He who has a partner has a master.”

— Alexandre Dumas

137. “Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?”

— Alexandre Dumas

138. “I have forgiven the world for the love of you;.”

— Alexandre Dumas

139. “I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.”

— Alexandre Dumas

140. “I have to admit,’ replied Villefort, looking at his father with astonishment, ‘you seem very well informed.’ ‘Heavens, it’s simple enough. You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.’ ‘Devotion?’ Villefort laughed. ‘Yes, devotion. That is the honest way to describe ambition when it has expectations.”

— Alexandre Dumas

141. “In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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142. “Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own.”

— Alexandre Dumas

143. “When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter – to quit paradise for earth – heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine – taste the hashish.”

— Alexandre Dumas

144. “He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

145. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

— Alexandre Dumas

146. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

147. “You talk like a noodle, my friend.”

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148. “Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!”

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149. “Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and the life would diminish, the total of the amount.”

— Alexandre Dumas

150. “An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.”

— Alexandre Dumas