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.“

“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.”

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”

“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.”

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.”

“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”

“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.”

“In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”

“Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

“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.”

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

“Patience is not my dominant virtue.”

“Man does not steal, he conquers”

“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”

“Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.”

“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”

“Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.”

“There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman.”

“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.'”

“There is … a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right] and wholesome state, revolts at [[crime. Still, from an artificial civilisation have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness…”

“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”

“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.”

“We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”

“The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.”

“Nothing succeeds like success.”

“Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.”