Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The wicked do not die in that way: God seems to take them under his protection to use them as the instruments of his vengeance.”

— Alexandre Dumas

202. “No man truly in love has ever let the hands of a clock go peacefully on their way.”

— Alexandre Dumas

203. “No matter; God wants Man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preserve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.”

— Alexandre Dumas

204. “Forward! Still forward!” said he. “When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”

— Alexandre Dumas

205. “Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.”

— Alexandre Dumas

206. “You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don’t kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that’s all.”

— Alexandre Dumas

207. “Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul.”

— Alexandre Dumas

208. “We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.”

— Alexandre Dumas

209. “The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don’t kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that’s all.”

— Alexandre Dumas

210. “When one thinks,” said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, “there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.”

— Alexandre Dumas

211. “Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.”

— Alexandre Dumas

212. “What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate?” said the ancients. The difference only between the eagle and the vulture, – serenity or restlessness.”

— Alexandre Dumas

213. “That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?”

— Alexandre Dumas

214. “The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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215. “Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation.”

— Alexandre Dumas

216. “Contempt for flowers is an offence against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offence in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.”

— Alexandre Dumas

217. “He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.”

— Alexandre Dumas

218. “For hearts which have long suffered, happiness is like dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb this beneficial rain as it falls on them, and nothing appears on the surface.”

— Alexandre Dumas

219. “On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

220. “God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers...”

— Alexandre Dumas

221. “Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that’s half the battle.”

— Alexandre Dumas

222. “At the end of ten minutes fifty thousand lights glittered, descending from the Palazzo di Venezia to the Piazza del Popolo, and mounting from the Piazzo del Popolo to the Palazzo di Venezia. It seemed like the fete of jack-o’-lanterns. It is impossible to form any idea of it without having seen it. Suppose that all the stars had descended from the sky and mingled in a wild dance on the face of the earth; the whole accompanied by cries that were never heard in any other part of the world.”

— Alexandre Dumas

223. “A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God has promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart.”

— Alexandre Dumas

224. “Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.”

— Alexandre Dumas

225. “One!” said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.”

— Alexandre Dumas

226. “The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.”

— Alexandre Dumas

227. “Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.”

— Alexandre Dumas

228. “O grande ville! c’ est dans ton sein palpitant que j’ai trouve ce que je cherchais; mineur patient, j’ai remue tes entrailles pour en faire sortir le mal; maintenant, mon oeuvre est accomplie, ma mission est terminee; maintenant tu ne peux plus m’ofrir ni joies ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris,! adieu!”

— Alexandre Dumas

229. “There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”

— Alexandre Dumas

230. “Monsieur Morcerf,” said Danglars, pale with anger and fear, “if I find a mad dog in my path I kill it and, far from feeling guilty about it, I feel that I have rendered a service to society. If you are mad and try to bite me, I warn you that I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father is dishonored?”

— Alexandre Dumas

231. “I have seen the heavens open, the sea rage and foam, the storm rise in a patch of sky and like a gigantic eagle beat the two horizons with its wings.”

— Alexandre Dumas

232. “I have in my heart three feelings with which one can never be bored: sadness, love and gratitude.”

— Alexandre Dumas

233. “This being understood, let us proceed with our history.”

— Alexandre Dumas

234. “I have lost all that bound me to life; now death smiles on me as a nurse smiles on the child she is about to rock to sleep; now welcome death!” No sooner had this idea taken possession of the unhappy young man than he became more calm and resigned;.”

— Alexandre Dumas

235. “One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

236. “We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.”

— Alexandre Dumas

237. “Tree forsakes not the flower – the flower falls from the tree.”

— Alexandre Dumas

238. “You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.”

— Alexandre Dumas

239. “Take care, my worthy host,” said Albert, “better is a sure enemy to well.”

— Alexandre Dumas

240. “Yes, indeed, I have often thought with a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me. This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.”

— Alexandre Dumas

241. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

242. “And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by that slow fever which creeps over the heart and changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the other and ever born anew.”

— Alexandre Dumas

243. “Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

— Alexandre Dumas

244. “Son,’ Danglars replied.”

— Alexandre Dumas

245. “He condemned these unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, but found them all insufficient, because after the torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least that insensibility that resembles it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

246. “Does this not tell you that grief, as well as in life, there is always something to look forward to beyond?”

— Alexandre Dumas

247. “In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.”

— Alexandre Dumas

248. “There are people who laugh at the horse who would not dare to laugh at the master.”

— Alexandre Dumas

249. “Ei kukaan ole niin ahne vapaapaikoille kuin miljoonien omistajat.”

— Alexandre Dumas

250. “The sea was calm with a fresh wind blowing from the south-east; they sailed under a sky of azure where God was also lighting up his lanterns, each one of which is a world.”

— Alexandre Dumas