Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

Justum et tenacem propositi virum.

Vous croyez donc aux journaux, vous  ? – Moi, pas le moins du monde ;

and knitted his brow like a man disquieted. The devil! murmured he, between his teeth. Can Treville have set this Gascon upon

Herkes bir a??zdan konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlam??t?, kimse kar??s?ndakinin ona söylediÄŸi ÅŸeye yan?t vermeye çal??m?yor, sadece kendi düÅŸünceleriyle ilgileniyordu.

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it.

She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.

Monte Cristo raised his eyes heavenwards but could not see the heavens: there was a veil of stone between him and the firmament.

And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!

Their intense happiness isolated them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in broken words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that they seem rather the expression of sorrow.

Contempt for flowers is an offence against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offence in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.

I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.

Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.

Ah! It is precisely in this that we reveal our base material origins. 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.

On vous pardonne, Renée, dit la marquise avec un sourire de tendresse qu'on était étonné de voir fleurir sur cette sèche figure ; mais le cÅ"ur de la femme est ainsi fait, que si aride qu'il devienne au souffle des préjugés et aux exigences de l'étiquette, il y a toujours un coin fertile et riant : c'est celui que Dieu a consacré à l'amour maternel

Valentine, est-ce là tout ce que vous avez dans l'âme? Quoi! je vous engage ma vie, je vous donne mon âme, je vous consacre jusqu'au plus insignifiant battement de mon cÅ"ur, et quand je suis tout à vous, moi, quand je me dis tout bas que je mourrai si je vous perds, vous ne vous épouvantez pas, vous, à la seule idée d'appartenir à un autre!

Tienen algunas cosas tal aire de imposibles, que no se nos ocurre la idea de intentarlas, y hasta las evitamos instintivamente.

She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro, he ahí todo.

a man who may not, like you, have seen all the kingdoms on earth, but who helped to overthrow one of the most powerful; a man who did not, like you, claim to be one of the envoys of God, but of the Supreme Being, not of Providence but of Fate. Well, Monsieur, the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain put an end to all that, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second.

chi ha compagno, ha padrone.4 But, at least, we are half-way there, since you already have one of the two votes you need. Leave it to me to get you the other, and I shall do my best.

All earthly ills yield to two all-potent remedies, time and silence.

He was about to marry a young and charming woman, whom he loved, not passionately, but reasonably, as became a deputy attorney of the king.

It was a lovely starlight night—they had just reached the top of the hill Villejuif, from whence Paris appears like a sombre sea tossing its millions of phosphoric waves into light—waves indeed more noisy, more passionate, more changeable, more furious, more greedy, than those of the tempestuous ocean,—waves which never rest as those of the sea sometimes do,—waves ever dashing, ever foaming, ever ingulfing what falls within their grasp.