Id. Alexandre Dumas híres idézetei
Id. Alexandre Dumas idézetek
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“It is only the dead who do not return.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Változat: As a general rule... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Forrás: The Three Musketeers
“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Változat: God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”
Forrás: CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Változat: Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Forrás: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Athos, Ch. 48: A Family Affair.
The Three Musketeers (1844)
“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)
“There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv Los mohicanos de París
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Théâtre complet, http://www.archive.org/details/thtrecomplet24dumauoft, 2009-08-07, XXIV, 1889, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 103], translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii
See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used.
Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it" (translation by G. G. Ramsay), but in that case describing the litigiousness of Roman women.
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1864 play)
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 11 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_11. <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 17 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_17 <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Three Musketeers
Forrás: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 67: Conclusion.
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 2 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_2 <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
“The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.”
Les chaînes du mariage sont si lourdes qu'il faut être deux pour les porter; quelquefois trois. <br class="br">Attributed to Dumas in: Elizabeth Abbott, Une histoire des maîtresses http://books.google.gr/books?id=fEsPUICzDY4C&dq=, Les Éditions Fides, 2004, p. 16. <br class="br">Attributed
“Nothing succeeds like success.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv Ange Pitou
Rien ne réussit comme le succès. <br class="br">Ange Pitou, Vol. 1 chapter 7 http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/biblio/chapitre.php?lid=r3&cid=7 (1854).
“Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.”
Alexandre Dumas könyv The Count of Monte Cristo
chapter 5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_5 <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
