Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802 July 24 - 1870 December 5) was a French novelist .

• "les chaînes du mariage sont si lourdes qu'il faut être deux pour les porter; quelquefois trois"
  • Translation: "the chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three"

• "We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."
  • Source:The Count of Monte Cristo

• "Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts"
  • Source:The Count of Monte Cristo

• "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.'"
  • Source:The Count of Monte Cristo

• "[T]o learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other."
  • Source:The Count of Monte Cristo

• "[L]earn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything."
  • Source:Twenty Years After

• "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."
  • Source: The Viscomte de Bragelonne

• "My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar."
  • Source: The Viscomte de Bragelonne