Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

302. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

303. “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

304. “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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305. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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310. “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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311. “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

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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314. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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316. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

317. “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

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

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319. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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321. “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?”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

323. “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

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

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

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326. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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

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

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

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

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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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

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

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338. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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

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

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344. “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

345. “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

346. “I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.”

— Alexandre Dumas

347. “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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348. “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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349. “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

350. “It is necessary... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”

— Alexandre Dumas