The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!