Alexandre Dumas fils > Quotes

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La dame aux camélias

“No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille

“Everything was believed except the truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“ﻻ بد أننا ارتكبنا كثيرا من اﻵثام قبل أن نولد..أو أننا سننعم بالكثير من السعادة بعد أن نموت..وأﻻ ما أحتوت الحياة على كل هذا العذاب.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon. Jesus was full of love for souls wounded by the passions of men; he loved to bind up their wounds and to find in those very wounds the balm which should heal them. Thus he said to the Magdalen: "Much shall be forgiven thee because thou hast loved much," a sublimity of pardon which can only have called forth a sublime faith.

Why do we make ourselves more strict than Christ? Why, holding obstinately to the opinions of the world, which hardens itself in order that it may be thought strong, do we reject, as it rejects, souls bleeding at wounds by which, like a sick man's bad blood, the evil of their past may be healed, if only a friendly hand is stretched out to lave them and set them in the convalescence of the heart?”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“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.”
― Alexander Dumas Fils

“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“يا الله ما أغرب أساليب القلب، وما أعجب الأعذار التى يلتمسها للوصول إلى رغباته.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“إن الردود التى ينتظرها الإنسان بفارغ الصبر تصل دائماً فى غيابه.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Pauvres créatures! Si c'est un tort de les aimer, c'est bien le moins qu'on les plaigne. Vous plaignez l'aveugle qui n'a jamais vu les rayons du jour, le sourd qui n'a jamais entendu les accords de la nature, le muet qui n'a jamais pu rendre la voix de son âme, et, sous un faux prétexte de pudeur, vous ne voulez pas plaindre cette cécité du coeur, cette surdité de âme, ce mutisme de la conscience qui rendent folle la malheureuse affligée et qui la font malgré elle incapable de voir le bien, d'entendre le Seigneur et de parler la langue pure de l'amour et de la foi.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, Camille

“الإنسان يجد الكثير من العزاء فى البوح بآلامه ومتاعبه.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Dorința prompt îndeplinită generează pe dată o alta.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“فى بعض الأحيان يجد الإنسان فى ناحية من نواحى ضعفه مصدراً للسعادة. (أرمان)”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“إن حوادث لحظة واحدة حقاً قد تؤثر فى حياتنا ومصائرنا كما لا تؤثر حوادث عام كامل !”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“إن للحياة فى بعض الأحيان ضروراتها القاسية على القلب .. ولكنها ضرورات لابد من الخضوع لها والتسليم بها.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Oricât de mult ai iubi o femeie, oricâtă încredere ai avea în ea, oricare ar fi siguranța în viitor pe care ți-o dă trecutul ei, ești întotdeauna mai mult sau mai puțin gelos. Dacă ai fost îndrăgostit, cu adevărat îndrăgostit, desigur ai resimțit această nevoie de a izola de restul lumii ființa în a cărei inimă ai vrea să fii numai tu. Mi se pare că oricât ar fi de indiferentă la ceea ce o înconjoară, femeia iubită își pierde din parfumul și din armonia ei în contact cu oamenii și cu lucrurile.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Que de routes prend et que de raisons se donne le coeur pour en arriver à ce qu'il veut !”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Как щастието и животът на другите предизвиква желание за живот и у тези, които вчера в душевната си самота и в мрачната си стая са желаели бързо да умрат?”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Nosotras, criaturas de azar, no tenemos deseos fantásticos ni amores inconcebibles. Nos entregamos igual por una cosa que por otra. Hay individuos que se arruinarían sin obtener de nosotras nada, y hay otros que nos logran por un ramillete. Nuestro corazón tiene caprichos; esa es su única distracción y su única excusa. Yo me he entregado a ti más deprisa que a ningún hombre. ¿Por qué? Porque, al verme escupir sangre, me cogiste la mano; porque lloraste; porque eres la sola persona humana que ha tenido a bien compadecerme.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dama de Las Camelias