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Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo(Bantam Classics)
Tagged: Heart And Mind, actions, Thinking
“Be kind, aim for my heart.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Tagged: Love, romance, Historical Fiction
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Tagged: Love, romance, Passionate Love, selfishness
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Happiness, Hard Work, Life
“What dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us. When they are revealed, men may realize that is by the good providence of God that they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Memoirs of Alexandre Dumas
Tagged: Life, Secrets
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: prayer, God, Sorrow
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Death, Life
“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, The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Friendship, Death, Love
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
— Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
Tagged: Dreams, Failure, Success
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