Works of Alexandre Dumas Quotes

“the song consisted of an invocation to Neptune, chanted by a single leader and repeated in chorus, with a rhythm so sweet and well balanced that it imitated the regular movement of the sailors bending to their oars and the oars beating the water.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life -- for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes -- I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas. Huge collection. Includes The Three Musketeers and the entire D'Artagnan Romances. Also Celebrated Crimes and more

“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts,”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“Leave us our poor relics, Roman, and do not complete the work of your fathers. They came as conquerors; you come as a friend. What was barbarism on their part, would be sacrilege on yours.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

“Chacun connaît ce retour de l'île d'Elbe, retour étrange, miraculeux, qui, sans exemple dans le passé, restera probablement sans imitation dans l'avenir.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Oeuvres d'Alexandre Dumas (Illustrée)