Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

~ Alexandre Dumas

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

~ Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

~ Alexandre Dumas

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

~ Alexandre Dumas

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.

~ Alexandre Dumas