All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, i...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All for one and one for all.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS What's history?
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Nothing succeeds like success.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to ano...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I am a Count, Not a Saint.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The kingdoms of kings are confined, either by mountains or rivers, or by a change in customs or by a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then onc...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was i...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I ret...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, th...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword...
D'Artagnan: The mighty ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Be kind, aim for my heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. No...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet;...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy th...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly hear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" <...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, an...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men could...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feeling...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, human...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understand...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Voyager, c'est vivre dans toute la plénitude du mot; c'est oublier le passé et l'avenir pour le pr...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our ca...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Qu'Est-ce que la mort? Un degré de plus dans le calme et deux peut-être dans le silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pist...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’

'So...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me sup...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own hori...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS ...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fair...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great diffic...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"

"Possibly nothing at all; the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS ...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS На този свят няма нито щастие, нито нещастие, има само с...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Luego, dirigiendo una postrer mirada sobre aquel apuesto joven, que tendría lo más veinticinco añ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse, There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the gar...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Once mention the word independence, or that of Italy, and he ( Giuseppe Garibaldi) becomes a volcano...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Antiquity is the aristocracy of history
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE After God, Shakespeare has created most
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-e...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Everything was believed except the truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE All for one, one for all.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The religious annals of the South are nothing more than a double entry ledger kept by fanaticism wit...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representin...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the ear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
ALEXANDER DUMAS All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDER DUMAS I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that...
ANN DUMAS There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French...
ANN DUMAS