Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

Misfortune is sometimes needed to plumb certain understandings of the actions of man.

The truth is that you are afraid.' 'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

Oui, le dévouement; c'est ainsi qu'on appelle en termes honnêtes, l'ambition qui espère.»

Es propio de los espíritus débiles el ver todas las cosas a través de un velo. El alma se forma a sí misma sus horizontes. Vuestra alma es sombría, y os presenta un cielo borrascoso.

Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.

Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting. I

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.

Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.

cómo cree que en política haya asesinatos? En política, querido mío, y vos lo sabéis tan bien como yo, no hay hombres, sino ideas; no sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino se allana un obstáculo.

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.

las italianas tienen a lo menos sobre las francesas la ventaja de ser fieles a su infidelidad

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.

Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.

Inured as men may be to danger, forewarned as they may be of peril, they understand, by the fluttering of the heart and the shuddering of the frame, the enormous difference between a dream and a reality, between the project and the execution

He was a young man of between eighteen and twenty, tall, slim, with fine dark eyes and ebony-black hair. His whole demeanor possessed the calm and resolve peculiar to men who have been accustomed from childhood to wrestle with danger. Page 8

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

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

Nici unul nici altul îns? nu putea rosti o vorb?; p?rul unuia atingea fruntea celuilalt, r?suflarea amândurora se f?cuse una, mâinile le ardeau strâns înl?nÈ›uite.

Does this not tell you that grief, as well as in life, there is always something to look forward to beyond?

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was so much ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. Besides, she found herself in circumstances where everything must be risked for the sake of everything.

Punctuality,' said Monte Cristo, 'is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.

Danaro e santita, Meta della meta.

La mer est le cimetière du château d'If.

déboutonna violemment sa redingote