Alexandre Dumas quotes

Alexandre Dumas was a renowned French writer, famous for his adventure novels. His most well-known works include "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". He remains one of the most widely read French authors worldwide. Here are 117 of his quotes:

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. (Alexandre Dumas)
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. View quote
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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. View quote
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. View quote
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. View quote
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All for one, one for all, that is our motto. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. View quote
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. View quote
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. View quote
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it. (Alexandre Dumas)
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. View quote
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. View quote
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat. View quote
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree. View quote
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. View quote
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest. View quote
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Nothing succeeds like success. View quote
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The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three. View quote
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. View quote
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. (Alexandre Dumas)
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever. View quote
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. View quote
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. View quote
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. View quote
Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Occupation: French Writer
Born: July 24, 1802
Died: December 5, 1870
Quotes count: 117
Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas

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