The Three Musketeers Quotes

“He who chases the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate the Catholics--all in the name of religion--he adopted a mixed belief which permitted him to be sometimes Catholic, sometimes a Huguenot. Now, he was accustomed to walk with his fowling piece on his shoulder, behind the hedges which border the roads, and when he saw a Catholic coming alone, the Protestant religion immediately prevailed in his mind. He lowered his gun in the direction of the traveler; then, when he was within ten paces of him, he commenced a conversation which almost always ended by the traveler's abandoning his purse to save his life. It goes without saying that when he saw a Huguenot coming, he felt himself filled with such ardent Catholic zeal that he could not understand how, a quarter of an hour before, he had been able to have any doubts upon the superiority of our holy religion.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Premium Collection - 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The ... Hero of the People, The Queen's Necklace...

“My dear friend, of what consequence is it if she kills me?' said Athos. 'Do you, perchance, think I set any great store by life?”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“A benefit reproached is an offense committed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I do not hold life dear enough to be afraid of death.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“This may be folly, madame - perhaps madness; but tell me, pray, had ever woman a more impassioned lover, had ever a queen a more enthusiastic servant?”
― Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers