Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

About Alexandre Dumas:

Alexandre Dumas is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
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Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

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Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. '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 l...

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the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

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The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only r...

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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which gener...

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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.

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The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't...

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There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as m...

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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

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Uncertainty is worse than all

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You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

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

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What is it?" said Jeanne, when Diana was gone; "you look rather gloomy." "Why, yes." "What has happened?" "Oh, mon Dieu! an accident." "To you?" "Not precisely to me, but to a person who was near me." "Who was it?" "The person I was walking with." "M...

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these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the ...

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There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one...

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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlexandre Dumas
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • AliasesAlexandre Dumas, père
  • BornJuly 24, 1802
  • DiedDecember 5, 1870
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionNovelist; Autobiographer; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Children's Writer; Writer
  • WorksThe Count Of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers