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The three musketeers quotes
10 quotes from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #1257 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
“All for one, one for all.”
— Spoken by a character · IX. D’ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
“It is only the dead who do not return.”
— Porthos · XLVII. THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.
— Spoken by a character · I. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D’ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.
— Spoken by a character · I. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D’ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
You said you were but three, but it appears to me we are four.
— Spoken by a character · V. THE KING’S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL’S GUARDS
“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
— Spoken by a character · XXXV. A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
Bravery is always respected, even in an enemy.
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. 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.
We must never look for discretion in first love. First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.