Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.”

— Alexandre Dumas

302. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

304. “Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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306. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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308. “I have looked at it with all possible attention,” said Dantes, “and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.”

— Alexandre Dumas

309. “Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners’ confidence.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

311. “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

312. “Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words. No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.”

— Alexandre Dumas

313. “I know that I have been a fool, a madman, to believe that the snow could have been animated, that the marble could grow warm; but what would you expect? The lover easily believes in love, nor has my journey been entirely in vain, since I behold you now.”

— Alexandre Dumas

314. “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

315. “What the count said was true – the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.”

— Alexandre Dumas

316. “How singular,” murmured Maximillian; “your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary – What strange feelings are aroused by politics.”

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317. “It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir,” replied Porthos... “and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.”

— Alexandre Dumas

318. “Then Monsieur is satisfied?” asked Planchet. “My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men!” “And I may profit by Monsieur’s happiness, and go to bed?”

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319. “Dear Valentine,’ said the young man, ’you are too far above my love for me to dare speak of it to you, yet every time that I see you I need to tell you that I adore you, so that the echo of my own words will gently caress my heart when I am no longer with you.”

— Alexandre Dumas

320. “He must be a vampire.”

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321. “That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!” The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.”

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322. “Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.”

— Alexandre Dumas

323. “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!”

— Alexandre Dumas

324. “Oh, what is man!’ d’Avrigny muttered. ‘The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone – an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!”

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325. “The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

327. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

328. “What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.”

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329. “You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!”

— Alexandre Dumas

330. “The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears.”

— Alexandre Dumas

331. “All four once more together.”

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332. “But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.”

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333. “As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.”

— Alexandre Dumas

334. “Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o’clock.”

— Alexandre Dumas

335. “The most curious spectacle in life is that of death.”

— Alexandre Dumas

336. “As we have seen, Villefort belonged to the nobility of the town and M. Morrel to the plebeian part of it: the former was an extreme Royalist, the latter suspected of harbouring Bonapartist sympathies. Villefort looked contemptuously at Morrel and answered coldly: ‘You know, Monsieur, that one can be mild in one’s private life, honest in one’s business dealings and skilled in one’s work, yet at the same time, politically speaking, be guilty of great crimes.”

— Alexandre Dumas

337. “I am – I am” – And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

338. “I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom,” murmured Athos;.”

— Alexandre Dumas

339. “Delays only double grief when one has to part...”

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340. “They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march. The heart of D’Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.”

— Alexandre Dumas

341. “However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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343. “Armed to the teeth?” “He had not even a knitting-needle.”

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344. “God speaks to your heart and your heart speaks to you. Tell me what it says.”

— Alexandre Dumas

345. “The marquise heard her sentence without showing any sign of fear or weakness. When it was finished, she said to the registrar, “Will you, sir, be so kind as to read it again? I had not expected the tumbril, and I was so much struck by that that I lost the thread of what followed.”

— Alexandre Dumas

346. “This will do,” said he, “and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand.” And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.”

— Alexandre Dumas

347. “The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.”

— Alexandre Dumas

348. “I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.”

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349. “We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, – this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;.”

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350. “You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There.”

— Alexandre Dumas