About Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas pere, was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.

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Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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 writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

All for one, one for all.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

All for one and one for all.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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 writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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 writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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 writer and dramatist (1802-1870)

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 writer and dramatist (1802-1870)