Alexandre Dumas was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films.
Read below some of the Quotes of Alexandre Dumas.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Nothing succeeds like success.
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.
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
