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Alexandre Dumas
French
Dramatist
About the author
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Children
#Men
#Education
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Suspicion
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Feeling
#Man
#Despair
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Success
#Nothing
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,
French
Dramatist
#Man
#Woman
#Promise
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,
French
Dramatist
#First
#Job
#Class
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Rest
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#God
#Men
All for one and one for all.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Art
#Conceit
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,
French
Dramatist
#Thinking
#World
#Succeed
#Doubt
#Force
#Direction
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
All for one, one for all.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Hope
#Words
#Wisdom
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#People
#Money
#Business
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas,
French
Dramatist
#Fight
#Order
#Happiness
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,
French
Dramatist
#Being
#Man
#Failure
#First
#Enemies