black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Alexandre Dumas

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Education Finish Oneself Work
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
Haste is a poor counselor.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Counseling Haste Poor
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Death Lose Love Strength Strong
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
Wait and hope!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Hope Patience Wait
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
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

Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Book Myself Paper Sword
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Death One Liner Return
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Final Himself Smile Wisdom
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Device Oneself
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Diet Drunk Lover Protection

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alexandre Dumas Quotes