Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.

For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.

Desrues was, however, I

Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.

a no nacer los malos pensamientos de una organización mala también, el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

Precisamos da desgraça para escavar certas minas misteriosas escondidas na inteligência humana; precisamos da pressão para fazer a pólvora explodir.

Avant d'avoir peur, on voit juste ; pendant qu'on a peur, on voit double ; et après qu'on a eu peur, on voit trouble.

Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.

But such was his state of mind that two bottles were not enough to extinguish his thoughts; so he remained, too drunk to fetch any more wine, not drunk enough to forget, seated in front of his two empty bottles, with his elbows on a rickety table, watching all the specters that Hoffman scattered across manuscripts moist with punch, dancing like a cloud of fantastic black dust in the shadows thrown by his long-wicked candle.

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.

A good deed is never lost.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during six thousand years as is wrought by the living in a single day.

Le idee non muoiono, sonnecchiano talvolta e si risvegliano poi più forti di prima.

The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.

Il faut avoir voulu mourir, pour savoir combien il est bon de vivre.

His pistol? But a man does not go to a boar-hunt with a pistol.

Haydée addressed her with a heartrending expression on her face: 'How do you expect him to understand me, my sister? He is my master, and I his slave. He has the right to see nothing.' The count shuddered at the tone of this voice, which awoke the deepest fibres of his being.

Mais l'homme au contraire, répugne au sang ; ce ne sont point les lois sociales qui répugnent au meurtre, ce sont les lois naturelles 

Nevertheless, many times during that evening she despaired of destiny, and of herself. She didn't invoke God, as we know, but she had faith in the genius of evil, that vast sovereignty that reigns over all the details of human life, a power so great that, as in the Arabian fable, it needs no more than a single pomegranate seed from which to reconstruct a ruined world. Once she'd readied herself to receive Felton

or la captivité partagée n'est plus qu'une demi-captivité

The rats are terrible fellows for gnawing whatever they come across; and I have heard unfortunate tuli-growers complain most bitterly of Noah for having put a couple of rats in the ark.

Ah!, caballero —respondió Caderousse—, no se puede consolar al que no quiere ser consolado, y

It was written," thought poor Cornelius, "that I should not, in this world, give my name either to a child, to a flower, or to a book, the three things by which a man's memory is perpetuated.