Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.”

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

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

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306. “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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307. “What tender threads do life and death hang.”

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

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves.”

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

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

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

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316. “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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317. “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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318. “Ah,” said the jailer, “do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”

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

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

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

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322. “Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”

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

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.”

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

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329. “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.”

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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. “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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332. “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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333. “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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334. “He must be a vampire.”

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

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

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

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

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342. “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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343. “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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344. “Does the open wound in another’s breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man’s side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

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345. “Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d’Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.”

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

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347. “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.”

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

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

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350. “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.”

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