Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “There’s nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons,” continued the sailor;.”

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253. “I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron’s heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.” “You.”

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254. “How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!”

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255. “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.”

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

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257. “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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258. “Misfortune does not help us to believe.”

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

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

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262. “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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263. “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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264. “You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.”

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265. “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.”

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

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268. “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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269. “Happiness even makes the wicked good.”

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

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

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

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273. “He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.”

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274. “Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash.”

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275. “Ah,” said the jailer, “do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”

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276. “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.”

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277. “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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278. “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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279. “We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

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280. “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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281. “A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does;.”

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.”

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

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

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

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289. “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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290. “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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291. “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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292. “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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293. “That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!” The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.”

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294. “Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated. “And now,” he exclaimed, remembering the tale of the Arabian fisherman, which Faria had related to him, “now, open sesame!”

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

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296. “Not before I have killed you, poltroon!” cried d’Artagnan, making the best face possible, and.”

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297. “While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.”

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298. “In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”

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

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300. “Alas, madame!” exclaimed Athos, “to-day love is like war – the breastplate is becoming useless.”

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