Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it.

and who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these

Overturn the world, change its character, yield to mad ideas, be even criminal—but live.

and left the table, to return a few moments later

He had contemplated danger with a smile, and when wounded had exclaimed with the great philosopher, Pain, thou art not an evil.

He condemned these unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, but found them all insufficient, because after the torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least that insensibility that resembles it.

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

Todo mal tiene dos remedios, el tiempo y el silencio.

The anchor was instantly dropped, and the chain ran rattling through the port-hole. Dantes continued at his post in spite of the presence of the pilot, until this manoeuvre was completed, and then he added, "Half-mast the colors, and square the yards!" "You see," said Danglars, "he fancies himself captain already

Nothing attracts a serious duel like an inconclusive one.

Quién soy yo?: la ley. ¿Acaso la ley tiene ojos para ver vuestra tristeza? ¿Es que la ley tiene oídos para oír vuestra dulce voz? ¿Es que la ley tiene memoria para comprender la delicadeza de vuestros sentimientos? No, señora, la ley ordena, y cuando ordena, hiere.

Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his beds, whilst, kneeling on the turf border, he analysed every vein of the flowering tulips

Le roi  ! Je le croyais assez philosophe pour comprendre qu'il n'y a pas de meurtre en politique.

I have my pride for men--serpents always ready to threaten every one who would pass without crushing them under foot. But I lay aside that pride before God, who has taken me from nothing to make me what I am.

Ils avaient poussé l'un à côté de l'autre comme deux arbres qui mêlent leurs racines sous le sol, leurs branches dans l'air, leur parfum dans le ciel ; seulement leur désir de se voir était le même

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.

The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebiere. The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the harbor to the Quai d'Orleans.

There are people who laugh at the horse who would not dare to laugh at the master.

Siempre tuve más miedo a una pluma y a un tintero, que a una espada o a una pistola.

besoin et nécessité sont deux synonymes entre lesquels il y a tout un monde d'intervalle.

Messieurs, dit-il, vous admettez bien ceci, n'est-ce pas, c'est qu'arrivé à un certain degré de fortune il n'y a plus de nécessaire que le superflu, comme ces dames admettront qu'arrivé à un certain degré d'exaltation, il n'y a plus de positif que l'idéal?

some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –

Not before I have killed you, poltroon! cried d'Artagnan, making the best face possible, and