Twenty Years After Quotes

“Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“My lord,” said D’Artagnan, “Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“But imagination has the angel’s or lightning’s wing; it clears seas in which we should certainly have been shipwrecked; it removes the darkness in which our illusions were lost, the precipice where our happiness was engulfed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Voici assez d'éloges donnés aux morts, médisons un peu des vivants!”
― Alexandre Dumas, Vingt ans après - Alexandre Dumas: Édition collector intégrale - Grand format 17 cm x 25 cm - (Annotée d'une biographie)

“Not a ripple could be noticed on the surface of the green waters; the swans themselves, even, reposing with folded wings like ships at anchor, seemed inspirations of the warmth of the air, the freshness of the water, and the silence of the beautiful evening”
― Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later

“A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later

“I hope, because hope exists in man, and never abandons him until death.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later

“It has been truly said, that a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart." 1”
― Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later

“Death does not reckon by years; it is impartial; some die young, some reach old age.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later

“Piedodiet man, par vājumu, kuru es jums izrādīju, bet katra cilvēka mūžā pienāk dienas, kad viņš sāk dzīvot savu bērnu labā.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Mēdz gadīties (jo uz pasaules ne viss ir slikts, bet arī kaut kas labs), kad viscietākajās un nejūtīgākajās sirdīs mostas, pēc tikko kā pārdzīvota saviļņojuma, cēla augstsirdība, kuru vairs nespēj apslāpēt aprēķins vai aizvainots lepnums, ja to no paša sākuma neuzveic citas, naidīgas jūtas.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“- Redzat, kardināla kungs, vai nav tiesa, žēl izšķirt cilvēkus, kuri viens otru tā mīl, kā mēs?”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Apsūdzība bija smaga, šausmīga. Visas neapdomātās karaļa rīcības tika pārvērstas par tīšiem un ļauniem nodomiem no viņa puses, bet viņa kļūdas tika pārvērstas par noziegumiem.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“- Ferfakss? pēkšņi atskanēja izsmējīga balss, kurai bija maigs, sidrabains tembrs, kas uzreiz nodeva, ka runātāja ir sieviete. - Ferfakss ir pārāk gudrs, lai nāktu uz šejieni.

Šie vārdi tika uzņemti ar klātesošo smiekliem; tie tika izteikti ar to bezrūpīgo drosmi, kādu sievietes smeļ savā vājumā, un kurš netiek sodīts.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Atos, vai jūs nezināt, kur pilsētā būtu viesnīca, kurā būtu ari tīri palagi, labs rostbifs un vīns bez apiņiem un paegļiem?”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“O, cik mīļa man tagad liekas mūsu Francija! Cik labi, ja ir tēvzeme, it sevišķi, ja tev tik slikti klājas svešumā!”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Varēja manīt, ka tauta ir uztraukta, bet atšķirībā no saniknota bišu spieta, nezināja ko konkrēti iesākt. Bija vairāk nekā skaidrs, ja tautai neuzradīsies savi vadoņi un barveži, viss beigsies tikai ar šo ņurdoņu.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“- Mūs tur nogalinās, - teica Aramiss, - es neieredzu angļus, viņi ir rupji, kā visi cilvēki, kuri dzer alu.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After