black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Alexandre Dumas

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
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
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Love Passion Selfish
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Beautiful History Offspring Rape
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Life Live Love Novel People Story
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Evil Remedy Silence Time
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alexandre Dumas Quotes