Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

All for one, one for all.
– Alexandre Dumas
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
– Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
– Alexandre Dumas
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
– Alexandre Dumas
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
– Alexandre Dumas
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
– Alexandre Dumas
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
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
Nothing succeeds like success.
– Alexandre Dumas
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
– Alexandre Dumas
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
– Alexandre Dumas
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
– Alexandre Dumas
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
– Alexandre Dumas
A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
– Alexandre Dumas
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
– Alexandre Dumas
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
– Alexandre Dumas
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
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