How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

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.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.