Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since con...
My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.
My lord, said D’Artagnan, Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.
Il y avait autour de la table cette hilarité bruyante et cette liberté individuelle qui accompagnent, chez les gens de condition inférieure, la fin des repas. Ceux qui étaient mécontents de leur place...
I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.
I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparro...
I have lost my friends, D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. I have nothing left but the bitterest of recollections...Two large tears rolled down his cheeks.You are young, Athos an...
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time could be seen dark flashes of misanthropy and hatred.
Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan
Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
Peut-être, dit Athos; mais, en tout cas, écoutez bien ceci: assassinez ou faites assassiner le duc de Buckingham, peut m'importe! je ne le connais pas, d'ailleurs c'est un Anglais; mais ne touchez pas...
What despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.
Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own
You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain ha...
Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan