Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.