32 Alexandre Dumas Quotes - Favorite Authors
Alexandre Dumas, père (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world.
Alexandre Dumas Quotes
1. All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope.
– Alexandre Dumas
2. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
– Alexandre Dumas
3. Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
– Alexandre Dumas
4. So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
– Alexandre Dumas
5. I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
– Alexandre Dumas
6. For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
– Alexandre Dumas
7. Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
– Alexandre Dumas
8. Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
– Alexandre Dumas
9. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
– Alexandre Dumas
10. Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
– Alexandre Dumas
11. There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
– Alexandre Dumas
12. Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
– Alexandre Dumas
13. Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
– Alexandre Dumas
14. All for one and one for all.
– Alexandre Dumas
15. True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
– Alexandre Dumas
16. 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.
– Alexandre Dumas
17. 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.
– Alexandre Dumas
18. When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
– Alexandre Dumas
19. Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
– Alexandre Dumas
20. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
– Alexandre Dumas
21. The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
– Alexandre Dumas
22. 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.
– Alexandre Dumas
23. Haste is a poor counselor.
– Alexandre Dumas
24. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
– Alexandre Dumas
25. A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
– Alexandre Dumas
26. The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
– Alexandre Dumas
27. Happiness is egotistical.
– Alexandre Dumas
28. Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
– Alexandre Dumas
29. To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
– Alexandre Dumas
30. Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
– Alexandre Dumas
31. Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
– Alexandre Dumas
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