“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“All for one and one for all.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Be kind, aim for my heart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice.
"In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword...
D'Artagnan: The mighty who?
Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.
D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag?
Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box.
D'Artagnan: Bring your own...
Porthos: [laughs]”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“It is only the dead who do not return.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
“People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Born place: in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, French Republic
Born date July 24, 1802
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“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our own life according to our own conscience, is the air in which alone moral sense grows and in which moral values are daily recreated in the free decision of the individual. Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's own conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, quote from The Road to Serfdom
“In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built; the living die a little more each day. The sun is too far away; light slides endlessly into night; fire and love consume themselves; the heart tries to warm itself with ashes.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from Winter Rose
“By the latter part of 1861 the War Department had taken over from the states the responsibility for feeding, clothing, and arming Union soldiers. But this process was marred by inefficiency, profiteering, and corruption. To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy.” This noun soon became an adjective to describe uniforms that ripped after a few weeks of wear, shoes that fell apart, blankets that disintegrated, and poor workmanship in general on items necessary to equip an army of half a million men and to create its support services within a few short months.”
― James M. McPherson, quote from Battle Cry of Freedom
“[John] ‘You guys saved me first,’ I reply.
[Sarah] ‘Yeah, obviously. So return the favor and save our planet.”
― Pittacus Lore, quote from The Revenge of Seven
“If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.”
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