Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners’ confidence.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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322. “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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323. “Be happy, noble heart. Be blessed for all the good you have done and will yet do. Let my gratitude remain hidden in the shadows like your good deeds.”

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

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

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327. “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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328. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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335. “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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336. “Oh, man,” murmured d’Avrigny, “the most selfish of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who believes the earth turns, the sun shines, and death strikes for him alone, – an ant cursing God from the top of a blade of grass!”

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337. “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.”

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338. “He must be a vampire.”

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

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

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341. “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.”

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342. “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.”

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343. “Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy’s expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.”

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344. “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.”

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345. “There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.”

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

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

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

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349. “All four once more together.”

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350. “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!”

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