762 Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

You are without a doubt a remarkable man,' Danglars said. 'And whatever philosophers say, it's marvellous to be rich.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

I shall see you again, if I have to set the world on fire for that." - The Three Musketeers

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.

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.