Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it. It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.

Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - 'Wait and hope'.

Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)

A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.

The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility.

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.

This will do, said he, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand. And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.

Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!

but he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.

the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet

I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.