Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

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.

So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright. So it is true that every step we take is more like a reptile's progress across the sand, leaving a track behind it. And often, alas, the track is the mark of our tears!

Insensato! disse. Dovevo strapparmi il cuore il giorno in cui decisi di vendicarmi!

It was one of those events which decide the life of a man;

When you want to obtain something touching a man's self-respect, you must spare his pride even the appearance of suffering.

When Danglars witnessed Napoleon's return to France, he realized the full effect of the blow he had directed against Dantès: his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'.

there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.

Death, according to the care we take to be on good or bad terms with it, is either a friend which will rock us as gently as a nursing mother or an enemy which will savagely tear apart body and soul.

Then he raised his eyes towards the ceiling, but withdrew then, immediately, as if he feared the roof would open and reveal to his distressed view that second tribunal called heaven, and that other judge named God.

so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it.

Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.

And without waiting for the answer of the newcomer to this proof of affection, M. de Treville seized his right hand and pressed it with all his might, without perceiving that Athos, whatever might be his self-command, allowed a slight murmur of pain to escape him, and if possible, grew paler than he was before.

I would follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.

Il y a des époques fatales où la prière, cet hymne naturel que Dieu a mis au fond du cÅ"ur de l'homme, devient suspecte aux yeux des hommes, car la prière est un acte d'espoir ou de reconnaissance.

No ho l'uniforme, ma ho lo spirito. Il mio cuore è moschettiere e mi trascina.

D'Artagnan admiró de qué hilos frágiles y desconocidos están a veces suspendidos los destinos de un pueblo y la vida de los hombres.

One must take the world as one finds it.

they were so happy that they were conscious only of the sunshine and the presence of each other.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

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