Quotes by
Alexandre Dumas, fils |
1824-1895 , French writer
French novelist and playwright, best known for his novel and play, La Dame aux camélias. The word “fils” (son) is usually added to his name to distinguish him from his father, Alexandre Dumas, père .
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Quotations
| • | So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. 8 |
| • | Give money, don't lend it. Giving only makes ungrateful people, lending makes enemies. 7 |
| • | I was bored. That's how it began. She bored me, that's how it ended. 6 |
| • | Forgiveness, do you know what it is? It is indifference to what does not touch us. 5 |
| • | Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. 5 |
| • | Business? It's quite simple: it's other people's money. 4 |
| • | When you fall, you never fall well. 4 |
| • | How right the Ancients were who had the same god for the merchants and the thieves. (Mercury) 4 |
| • | We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love. 3 |
| • | Do you know what duty is? What one demands from others. |
| • | True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. |
| • | How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. |
| • | One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes. |
| • | Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they would never allow you to wound their self-esteem. |
| • | The difference between genius and stupidity is this: genius has its limits. |
| • | The silliest woman is a hundred times more cunning than the wittiest man. |
| • | When a man is ashamed of himself, he is ruthless to others. |
| • | If God could suddenly be condemned to live the life he inflicts on man, he would kill himself. |
| • | Men, my dear, are like kites, the more rope you give them, the more you hold them. |
| • | For people who cannot return it, a gift is only priceless if it has no value. |
| • | There is only one legitimate way, which is work, to make money, and since a lot of people don't want to use it, a lot of misunderstanding results. |
| • | Honesty is the greatest of all mischief, because it is the only one that the smart ones do not foresee. |
| • | He who kills himself is a victim who meets his executioner and kills him. |
| • | No matter how young you are, the day you lose your mother, you suddenly get old. |
| • | Love is physics, marriage is chemistry. |
| • | It's easier to be good for everyone than for someone. |
| • | Never argue, you won't convince anyone. Opinions are like nails; the more you hit them, the more you push them in. |
| • | It is possible to become a painter, a sculptor, or a musician by study, but not a dramatic poet; a man is so either at once or never, as he is blonde or brown, and cannot help it. |
