Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Does this not tell you that grief, as well as in life, there is always something to look forward to beyond?”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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253. “It was a stormy and dark night;.”

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254. “There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”

— Alexandre Dumas

255. “Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

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

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257. “Incertitude is still hope.”

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258. “You live alone, then?” “I do.” “You have no sister, no son, no father?” “I have no one.” “How can you live thus, with no one to attach you to life?”

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259. “Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.”

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260. “And yet the two young people had never declared their affection; they had grown together like two trees whose roots are mingled, whose branches intertwine and whose intermingled perfume rises to the heavens.”

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261. “You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.”

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262. “Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?” “Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.” “Never.”

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263. “He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.”

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264. “There’s nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons,” continued the sailor;.”

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

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266. “I hate the English – they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.”

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267. “No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.”

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268. “I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.”

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269. “There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.”

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270. “If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.”

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271. “There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.”

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272. “D’Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o’clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.”

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273. “D’Artagnan had time to reflect that women – those gentle doves – treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.”

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274. “Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart. When.”

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275. “And now,” said the unknown, “farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven’s substitute to recompense the good – now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!” At these words he gave a signal, and, as if only awaiting this signal, the yacht instantly put out to sea.”

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276. “If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer’s trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?”

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277. “His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d’Artagnan her husband – such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!”

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278. “Sir,” suddenly exclaimed the countess, after their walk had continued ten minutes in silence, “is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?” “I have suffered deeply, madame,” answered Monte Cristo. “But now you are happy?” “Doubtless,” replied the count, “since no one hears me complain.”

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279. “Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

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280. “Happiness even makes the wicked good.”

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281. “Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.”

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282. “The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville – the counsels being thrown into the bargain.”

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283. “What tender threads do life and death hang.”

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284. “I can assure you of one thing, – the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.”

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285. “Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.”

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286. “Misfortune does not help us to believe.”

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287. “The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.”

— Alexandre Dumas

288. “At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand,” replied Mercedes; “you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, ‘I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another’s.’ Is not this true, Fernand?”

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289. “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.”

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290. “D’Artagnan, be it remembered, was only twenty years old, and at that age sleep has its imprescriptible rights which it imperiously insists upon, even with the saddest hearts.”

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291. “Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.”

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292. “In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves.”

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293. “D’Artagnan obeyed like a child, without resistance or even objection, which proves that he was very positively in love.”

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294. “For behind all present happiness is concealed a fear for the future.”

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295. “In every country where independence takes the place of liberty, the first need felt by any strong mind and powerful constitution is to possess a weapon which can serve both for attack and defence; and which, by making its bearer formidable, will mean that he often inspires dread.”

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296. “The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards’ quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.”

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297. “Alas, alas!’ Andrea said, with a sigh. ‘One can never be completely happy in this world.”

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298. “It was only then that he met Villefort’s dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.”

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299. “He called successively at the abodes of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Neither of them had returned.”

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300. “Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.”

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