Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you?—do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?" Villefort's

Scapperemo insieme, e se non ci riusciamo almeno parleremo, parleremo delle persone che amiamo. Ci sarà pure qualcuno che ami, o no?" "Sono solo al mondo." "Allora amerai me; se sei giovane saremo compari, se sei vecchio saremo padre e figlio.

Oui, ma fille, dit Monte Cristo ; tu sais bien que ce n'est jamais moi qui te quitterai. Ce n'est point l'arbre qui quitte la fleur, c'est la fleur qui quitte l'arbre.

God wills it that man whom he has created, and in whose heart he has so profoundly rooted the love of life, should do all in his power to preserve that existence, which, however painful it may be, is yet always so dear.

Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes - I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently free.

the song consisted of an invocation to Neptune, chanted by a single leader and repeated in chorus, with a rhythm so sweet and well balanced that it imitated the regular movement of the sailors bending to their oars and the oars beating the water.

Tre mesi prima aspirava solo alla libertà e ora già non gli bastava, voleva la ricchezza; non era colpa sua, ma di Dio, che ha concesso all'uomo possibilità limitate ma desideri infiniti.

j'ai encore plus peur de la malédiction des morts que de la haine des vivants.

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.

Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.

Nothing but the recollection of his oath gave him strength to proceed.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Quién sabe además si el genovés no era uno de esos hombres que tienen bastante talento para no saber nunca mas que lo que deben saber, ni creer nunca mas que lo que les importa creer?

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live..... the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

And now," said the unknown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

Et maintenant, dit l'homme inconnu, adieu bonté, humanité, reconnaissance... adieu à tous les sentiments qui épanouissent le coeur! ... Je me suis substitué à la Providence pour récompenser les bons... que le Dieu vengeur me cède sa place pour punir les méchants! (p. 396)

Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit … Happy the vintager who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

The marquise heard her sentence without showing any sign of fear or weakness. When it was finished, she said to the registrar, "Will you, sir, be so kind as to read it again? I had not expected the tumbril, and I was so much struck by that that I lost the thread of what followed.

D'Artagnan obeyed like a child, without resistance or even objection, which proves that he was very positively in love.