Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." He believes in you.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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In prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.