Quotes By Author: Alexandre Dumas

“Never mind, you know the word must; with that word one does many things.”

“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”

“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It’s rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I’ll read you the first canto; it’s four hundred verses long and takes one minute.”

“That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?”

“Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?”

“I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did”

“In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”

“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man’s capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him…Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong.”

“Nothing succeeds like success.”

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.”

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”

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

“What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.”

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”