Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There.”

— Alexandre Dumas

352. “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.”

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353. “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

354. “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

355. “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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356. “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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357. “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

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

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359. “He must be a vampire.”

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

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361. “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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362. “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

363. “The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D’Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache. Then.”

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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

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

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368. “Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to one’s self and the walls – walls have ears but no tongue;.”

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369. “All four once more together.”

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370. “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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371. “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.”

— Alexandre Dumas

372. “Milady felt a consolation in seeing nature partake of the disorder of her heart. The thunder growled in the air like the passion and anger in her thoughts. It appeared to her that the blast as it swept along disheveled her brow, as it bowed the branches of the trees and bore away their leaves. She howled as the hurricane howled; and her voice was lost in the great voice of nature, which also seemed to groan with despair.”

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

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

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377. “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

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

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379. “And this feeling had been more painfully perceived by young d’Artagnan – for so was the Don Quixote of this second Rosinante named – from his not being able to conceal from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, therefore, when accepting the gift of the pony from M. d’Artagnan the elder. He was not ignorant that such a beast was worth at least twenty livres; and the words which had accompanied the present were above all price.”

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380. “Planchet, two hours before, had asked his master for some dinner, and he had answered him with the proverb, “He who sleeps, dines.” And Planchet dined by sleeping.”

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381. “I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d’Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!”

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382. “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.”

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383. “Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream. But.”

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384. “Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.”

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

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

— Alexandre Dumas

387. “We will escape, and if we cannot escape we will talk, you of those you love and I of those whom I love.”

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388. “Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.”

— Alexandre Dumas

389. “But I lay aside that pride before God, who has taken me from nothing to make me what I am.”

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390. “The night was shining with stars. They were at the top of the Montee de Villedjuif, on the plateau from which Paris is a dark sea shimmering with millions of lights like phosphorescent waves; and waves they are, more thunderous, more passionate, more shifting, more furious and more greedy than those of the stormy ocean, waves which never experience the tranquility of a vast sea, but constantly pound together, ever foaming and engulfing everything!”

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391. “Oh,” said the count, “I only know two things which destroy the appetite, – grief – and as I am happy to see you very cheerful, it is not that – and love. Now after what you told me this morning of your heart, I may believe” –.”

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

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393. “After about ten minutes’ silence, she suddenly said: “Is it true that you have seen much, travelled far, and suffered deeply?” “I have suffered deeply, madame,” answered Monte Cristo. “But now you are happy?” “Doubtless,” replied the Count, “since no one hears me complain.” “And has your present happiness softened your heart?” “My present happiness equals my past misery,” said the Count.”

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394. “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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395. “Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you,” an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks, “Know thyself,” a knowledge for which, in our days, we have substituted the less difficult and more advantageous science of knowing others.”

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396. “It was one of those events which decide the life of a man;.”

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397. “God won’t give the devil the pleasure of receiving a priest.”

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398. “They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.”

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399. “My friend, she is a woman.” “No, no, you are deceived – she is a queen.”

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400. “She will follow you to the end of the world, Athos, if she recognizes you.”

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