Alexandre Dumas: Citations en anglais

Alexandre Dumas était écrivain et dramaturge français, père de l'écrivain et dramaturge homonyme. Citations en anglais.
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“We are always in a hurry to be happy…; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”

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“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Variante: What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.”

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Source: The Count of Monte Cristo, V1

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“… The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground… they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us…”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre The Black Tulip

Source: The Black Tulip

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

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.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Chapter 4 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_4 <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“… remember that what has once been done may be done again.”

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Alexandre Dumas livre Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo