762 Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

Eh bien, quand je travaille, et je travaille nuit et jour, quand je travaille, il y a des moments où je ne me souviens plus, et quand je ne me souviens plus, je suis heureux à la manière des morts: mais cela vaut encore mieux que de souffrir.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.

However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

In presence of this ingenuous greatness of soul, Aramis felt himself little. It was the second time he had been compelled to bend before real superiority of heart, much more powerful than splendour of mind.

The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache.

What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".