Александр Дюма (отец) цитаты

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„Люди всегда так — по самолюбию ближнего готовы бить топором, а когда их собственное самолюбие уколют иголкой, они вопят.“

„Как бы хорошо ты ни говорил, если ты говоришь слишком много, то в конце концов станешь говорить глупости.“

„Любовь без уважения далеко не идёт и высоко не поднимается: это ангел с одним крылом.“

„Кто умеет создавать великое, создаст и малое.“

„Кто красиво жил, тот и умирает красиво.“

„Женщина становится полноценной личностью только тогда, когда ее кто-нибудь полюбит.“

„Женщина священна; женщина, которую любишь, — священна вдвойне.“

„Привидения являются только тем, кто должен их видеть.“

„Слава — товар дорогой и скоропортящийся.“

„Чем выше парит в небесах могучий орёл, тем дольше он вынужден отдыхать на земле.“

„У домов, как у людей, есть своя душа и свое лицо, на котором отражается их внутренняя сущность.“

„Никогда не бывает проявлением трусости подчинение силе, стоящей над вами.“

„Ждать невозможно лишь тогда, когда ничего не делаешь.“

„Вся человеческая мудрость заключается в двух словах: ждать и надеяться!“

„В их обществе я бы умер от скуки, не будь там меня.“

„История — это гвоздь, на который я вешаю свою картину.“

„Главное достоинство политика — это его честность.“

„Легче всего осуществимы те мечты, в которых не сомневаются.“

„Злословие и клевета не имели бы такой силы, если бы глупость не пролагала им пути.“

„Редко случается, чтобы то, чего пламенно желаешь, столь же пламенно не оберегали другие люди.“

„Виконт де Бражелон, или Десять лет спустя“

„Судейские — народ живучий.“

„Экранизации произведений Александра Дюма“

„Историк — властелин минувших эпох.“

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

“For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”

“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.”

“… know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more”

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”

“All for one, one for all, that is our motto.”

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.

"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

“Pain, thou art not an evil”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

“Order is the key to all problems.”

“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

“Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”

“It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“I am a Count, Not a Saint.”

“If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”

“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”

“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"

"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.”

“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.”

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”