Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

remember that what has once been done may be done again.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

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.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

Be kind, aim for my heart.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Haste is a poor counselor

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.