Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Happiness, Fight, Order

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas

Love, Together, Cannot

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

Failure, Person, Makes

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Feeling, Despair, Felt

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas

Hope, Wisdom, Human

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Education, Men, Stupid

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas

Success, Nothing, Succeeds

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas

All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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

Girl, Woman, Almost

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.
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Alone, Moving, Single

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas

Sometimes, Rest, Rogues

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

Job, Person, Keep

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas

Love, Art, Through

All for one and one for all.
Alexandre Dumas

All for one, one for all.
Alexandre Dumas

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas

Money, Business, Simple

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 24, 1802

Died: December 5, 1870

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