Alexandre Dumas fils Quotes

Les femmes sont impitoyables avec les gens qu'elles n'aiment pas.

It is always difficult to console a sorrow that is unknown to one...

المرأة قد تسمح للرجل الذى تحبه أن يخونها .. ولكنها لا تسمح له قط أن يهين كبرياءها. (برودنس)

لا يوجد رجل إلا خانته المرأة التى يحبها ولو مرة واحدة .. ولا يوجد رجل إلا وبرح به الألم الذى تثيره هذه الخيانة. (أرمان ديفال)

عاشت بغيا وستموت قديسة.

Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.

Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the repentance of one sinner than over a hundred good men who have never sinned, let us endeavor to make heaven rejoice. We may be rewarded with interest. Let us leave along the path the alms of our forgiveness for those whose earthly desires have marooned them, so that a divine hope may save them, and, as the wise old women say when they prescribe a remedy of their own invention, if it doesn't help, at least it can't hurt.

L'enfant est petit, et il renferme l'homme; le cerveau est étroit, et il abrite la pensée; l'œil n'est qu'un point, et il embrasse des lieues.

je ne sais pas si de votre vie vous avez éprouvé
ou si vous éprouverez jamais ce que je ressentais
à la vue de Marguerite.

"Hänen kasvonsa olivat vakavat ja hymynsä arvokas, ja se joka vain näki millä tavoin hän käveli saattoi sanoa samoin kuin Elleviou kerran eräästä hovinaisesta: "Tuo nainen on varmasti joko ilotyttö tai herttuatar.

In the interest of the dictionaries of the future let me lay down the principle that the Demi-Monde, contrary to the common belief and in spite of what is printed, does not represent the ruck of courtesans, but the class of women that have lost caste.

"I think that every one whom you may ask how to write a play will reply, if he really can write one, that he doesn't know how it is done. It is a little as if you were to ask Romeo what he did to fall in love with Juliet and to make her love him; he would reply that he did not know, that it simply happened.

Well, my dear friend, if you want me to be quite frank, I'll own up that I don't know how to write a play. One day a long time ago, when I was scarcely out of school, I asked my father the same question. He answered: "It's very simple; the first act clear, the last act short, and all the acts interesting.

Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.

Everything was believed except the truth.

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