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.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

All for one and one for all.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

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.

Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.