The Man in the Iron Mask Quotes

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“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.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“So like Athos." thought Aramis; "That which is actually good never alters.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment.”

“What is it?”

“Impossibility.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.
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― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask: Easyread Large Edition

“In presence of this ingenuous greatness of soul, Aramis felt himself little. It was the second time he had been compelled to bend before real superiority of heart, much more powerful than splendour of mind.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“But you are quite of opinion, are you not, that Heaven will avenge me, d'Artagnan?"
"And I know some persons on earth who will lend a helping hand," said the captain.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“All four once more together.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne