Alexandre Dumas

Quotes

• “Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a sm...”
• “Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When yo...”
• “Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of...”
• “Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom s...”
• “For many years, I used to take The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas with me anytime I traveled. I've probably re...”
• “Dorothy Parker, "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" from Sunset Gun (1927); reproduced in Not So Deep as a Well: Collected ...”
• “* My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts...”
• “Although I work, and seldom cease,At Dumas père and Dumas fils,Alas, I cannot make me careFor Dumas fils and Dumas père.”
• “My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”
• “Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires ; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis : «Cherchez la femme !»”
• “Attributed to Dumas in: Elizabeth Abbott, Une histoire des maîtresses, Les Éditions Fides, 2004, p. 16.”
• “You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.”
• “Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”
• “Translation: The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.”
• “Les chaînes du mariage sont si lourdes qu'il faut être deux pour les porter ; quelquefois trois.”
• “There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman'.”
• “See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used.”
• “, translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii”
• “In response to a racist comment directed at the author”
• “Cherchez la femme, pardieu ! cherchez la femme !”
• “Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise”
• “All for one, one for all, that is our motto.”
• “Ange Pitou, Vol. 1 chapter 7 (1854).”
• “Rien ne réussit comme le succès.”
• “Ch. 9: D'Artagnan Shows Himself.”
• “Athos, Ch. 48: A Family Affair.”
• “Nothing succeeds like success.”
• “Adventures in Czarist Russia.”
• “Celeste Ng interview (2022)”
• “Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.”
• “Ch. 67: Conclusion.”
• “Look for the woman!”