Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

All for one and one for all.

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.