Alexandre Dumas Quotes - Famous Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
Born: 1802-07-24
Died: 1870-12-05
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...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
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A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
- Alexandre Dumas
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
- Alexandre Dumas, fils
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It is only rarely 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.
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Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
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Nothing succeeds like success.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
- Alexandre Dumas
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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 life is to live.
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
- Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
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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'. - The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas
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