True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHappiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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