I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTrue, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Happiness is egotistical.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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