Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'—Your

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.

You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.

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

You know very well that it will never be I who will leave you. It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation

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?

What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;

I was saying to him only yesterday: 'You are imprudent, M. le Comte; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.' 'Well,' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, someday you will be robbed. What did he say? He quietly said: 'What do I care if I am?

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do you marry her. You marry a money-bag label, it is true; well, but what does that matter? It is better to have a blazon less and a figure more on it.

Go, said the count deliberately, go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world; that I am happy to use that power in the behalf of those I love; and that I love you, Morrel. I will remember it, said the young man, as selfish children recollect their parents when they want their aid. When I need your assistance, and the moment may come, I will come to you, count.

Una alegría más triste que la tristeza.

What! cried he, in an accent of greater astonishment than beforem your second witness is Monsieur Aramis? Doubtless! Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at the court and in the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables?

it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.

but I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.

God has preserved us hitherto, God will preserve us still.

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.

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

d'Artagnan wished to stop the young woman, seize her and gaze upon her, were it only for a minute; but quick as a bird she glided between his hands, and when he wished to speak to her, her finger placed upon her mouth, with a little imperative gesture full of grace, reminded him that he was under the command of a power which he must blindly obey, and which forbade him even to make the slightest complaint.