Quotes from Alexander Dumas

Wait and hope for!

Know that everything's for sale for one who knows to offer a right price.

if you observe the social structure of the people, you only see springs of the machine, but not also the noble hand which moves it.

When talking about speculations, a man dreams, and money decides.

A man gets an appetite when he starts to eat.

After the virtue of not making a mistake, the greatest virtue of a man is to accept his mistake.

your fortune looks like the pyramids. When someone would want to tear them, he wouldn't dare to, and when he dares to, he couldn't do it.

Enthusiasm is a finished joy, and joy makes a man insensitive for the things of this world.

the friends we've lost are not resting in earth, but they are buried in our heart, because God wants for them to be close to us forever.

God wants us to understand Him and to think about His power. That's why He has given us a free will.

D'Artagnan fought three times with Rochefort, and wounded him three times. 'I shall probably kill you the fourth, said he to him, holding out his hand to assist him to rise. 'It is much better both for you and for me to stop where we are,' answered the wounded man. 'Corbleu! I am more your friend than you think - for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut!' They this time embraced heartily, and without retaining any malice.

Patrão, não vamos confundir prudência com covardia; a prudência é uma virtude.

addressing the two ecclesiastics. Praise God, monsieur, replied they, bowing together. I have not failed to do so, your Reverences, replied the young man, returning their salutation.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

Let us add that in these times of lax morality they had no more delicacy with respect to the mistresses; and that the latter almost always left them valuable and durable remembrances, as if they essayed to conquer the fragility of their sentiments by the solidity of their gifts.

Em geral, as pessoas só pedem conselhos - dizia - para não segui-los, ou, quando os seguem, só para ter alguém a quem recriminar por havê-los dado.

Oh, difficulties do not affright me, said D'Artagnan. I shrink before nothing but impossibilities.

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

All for one; one for all.