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The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1) QUOTES

The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1) QUOTES

1 " No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

2 " Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

3 " There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

4 " - No, no. ¡Nada de amistad, señora! Mas quiero morir de amor, que vivir de amistad "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

5 " Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope? "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

6 " He has not recovered the blow?" said he to Athos.

He is struck to death."

Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul is of a tempered nature. Around all hearts as noble as his, there is a second envelope that forms a cuirass. The first bleeds, the second resists."

No," replied Athos, "Raoul will die of it."

_Mordioux!_" said D'Artagnan, in a melancholy tone. And he did not add a word to this exclamation. Then, a minute after, "Why do you let him go?"

Because he insists on going."

And why do you not go with him?"

Because I could not bear to see him die. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

7 " Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

8 " - Sí, que me ha dicho, mas ya sabéis que el hombre propone y Dios dispone, verba volant scripta manent. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

9 " Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

10 " D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. "You know one
thing," continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; "you
know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things.
Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will
come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

11 " Grimaud left the chamber, and led the way to the hall, where, according
to the custom of the province, the body was laid out, previously to
being put away forever. D'Artagnan was struck at seeing two open coffins
in the hall. In reply to the mute invitation of Grimaud, he approached,
and saw in one of them Athos, still handsome in death, and, in the
other, Raoul with his eyes closed, his cheeks pearly as those of the
Palls of Virgil, with a smile on his violet lips. He shuddered at seeing
the father and son, those two departed souls, represented on earth by
two silent, melancholy bodies, incapable of touching each other, however
close they might be. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

12 " this is a very fair gathering--circumspect, calm, accustomed to disturbance, acquainted with blows! Peste! I have been lucky. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

13 " Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

14 " Hoy, caballero, tenemos otros intereses; cada edad trae consigo los suyos; y como hoy nos entendemos hablando, como en otra época nos entendíamos sin hablar, hablemos, si os parece. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

15 " The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

16 " Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

17 " - Majestad, yo no reflexiono; siento. Viéndome atacada, rechazo el ataque por instinto; nada más. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

18 " Toda idea que llega a salir del limbo del pensamiento, y se vulgariza por una manifestación cualquiera, deja de pertenecer hasta al mismo que la ha concebido. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

19 " ¿Era perversidad o simplemente malicia? Nosotros creemos que las naturalezas ricas y poderosas, son aquellas que, semejantes al árbol de la ciencia, causan a la vez el bien y el mal, doble rama, florida siempre, y siempre fecunda, cuyos buenos frutos saben distinguir los que tienen hambre de ellos, y cuyos nocivos frutos matan a los inútiles y parásitos por haberlos comido, lo cual no es un mal tan grave. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)

20 " de un singur lucru îmi pare rău: de prietenia noastră; căci port în piept o inimă; și, lucru ciudat, această inimă nu s-a uscat sub asprimea vântului, mizeriei care mi-a trecut prin găurile mantalei sau prin rănile adânc săpate în piele de ascuțișurile atâtor săbii, aduse din cine știe câte fabrici. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1)