Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.
– Alexandre Dumas
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- I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting. – Alexandre Dumas
- Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. – Alexandre Dumas
- God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers. – Alexandre Dumas
- these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after – Alexandre Dumas
- No matter how strong you are, you don’t just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The truth is that you are afraid.”Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean. – Alexandre Dumas
- There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. – Alexandre Dumas
- Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D’Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it. – Alexandre Dumas
- In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests. – Alexandre Dumas
- Women are never so strong as after their defeat. – Alexandre Dumas
- we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows. – Alexandre Dumas
- D’Artagnan had time to reflect that women – those gentle doves – treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. – Alexandre Dumas
- You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault – that they have not yet had time to become old. – Alexandre Dumas
- We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. – Alexandre Dumas
- To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity. – Alexandre Dumas
- Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. – Alexandre Dumas
- We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. – Alexandre Dumas
- Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady – Alexandre Dumas
- My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future. – Alexandre Dumas
- There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door. – Alexandre Dumas
- Man does not steal, he conquers – Alexandre Dumas
- So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. – Alexandre Dumas
- In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. – Alexandre Dumas
- MY GOD!’ read Monte Cristo, ‘LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY! – Alexandre Dumas
- Sometimes salvation is found in agony. – Alexandre Dumas
- Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire. – Alexandre Dumas
- Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. – Alexandre Dumas
- No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D’Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer. – Alexandre Dumas
- Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. – Alexandre Dumas
- Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more. – Alexandre Dumas fils
- As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. – Alexandre Dumas
- Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. – Alexandre Dumas
- The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry. – Alexandre Dumas
- God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. – Alexandre Dumas
- …remember that what has once been done may be done again. – Alexandre Dumas
- How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you! – Alexandre Dumas
- Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection. – Alexandre Dumas
- All for one and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas
- All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. – Alexandre Dumas
- Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. – Evelyn Waugh