Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Quote 1. - “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 2. - “All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 3. - “Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 4. - “He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 5. - “I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 6. - “Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 7. - “It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 8. - “You must teach me a small part of what you know,” said Dantes, “if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping.” The abbe smiled. “Alas, my boy,” said he, “human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 9. - “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 10. - “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-’Wait and hope’.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 11. - “All for one, one for all, that is our device.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 12. - “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 13. - “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 14. - “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 15. - “If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.” Alexandre Dumas
Quote 16. - “It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.” Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas père) was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. He delighted many generations of readers with his highly romantic novels immortalizing the adventures of the Three Musketeers and the Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterêts in 1802 and died in 1870. His works also include : Henri III et sa cour (1829), Christine (1830), Antony (1831), and La Tour de Nesle (1832),Twenty Years After (1845, tr. 1846) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1848–50, tr. 1850?), Queen Margot (1845, tr. 1845), The Lady of Monsoreau (1846, tr. 1847), The Forty-Five (1848), The Black Tulip (1850), and The Journal of Madame Giovanni (tr. 1944).