Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “What tender threads do life and death hang.”

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

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306. “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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307. “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.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners’ confidence.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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320. “Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.”

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.”

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

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325. “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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326. “I have only two adversaries – I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them, – they are time and distance. There is a third, and the most terrible – that is my condition as a mortal being.”

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

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328. “Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not – more than anything else – exercise, habit, experience?”

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.”

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

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333. “Yes; but one gets out of prison,” said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, “and when one gets out and one’s name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge.”

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

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

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

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

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340. “My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.”

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341. “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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342. “D’Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He.”

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343. “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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344. “Have you no friends who could help you in these circumstances?’ Morrel smiled sadly and said: ‘In business, Monsieur, as you very well know, one has no friends, only associates.”

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345. “Death to the traitors! To the gallows with Cornelius de Witt! Death! death!”

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346. “This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.”

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347. “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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348. “He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.”

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349. “She crammed so much knowledge into her head to alleviate the weight in her heart.”

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350. “The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.”

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