Alexandre Dumas: Citations en anglais (Page 5)

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“I am a Count, Not a Saint.”

“If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”

“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”

“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"

"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.”

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

“It is only the dead who do not return.”

“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”

“In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.”

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.”

“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”

“I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.”