Quotes by
Alexandre Dumas |
Alexandre Dumas père, 1802-1870 , French writer
His real name was Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. He was one of the most widely read French authors. Some of his best known books: The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844), Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845), The Corsican Brothers (Les Frères Corses, 1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–46), The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850). His novels have been adapted since the early 20th century into nearly 200 films.
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Quotations
| • | Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics. 22 |
| • | Women inspire us to do great things and prevent us from accomplishing them. 10 |
| • | Man is born without teeth, without hair and without illusions, and so he dies, without hair, without teeth and without illusions. 7 |
| • | God fishes souls with a fishing rod, Satan fishes them with a net. 6 |
| • | Nothing succeeds like success. 6 |
| • | Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. 5 |
| • | One can forget God as long as he is happy, but when happiness gives way to misery, it is always to God that we must return. 4 |
| • | Wine is the spiritual part of a meal. Meat and vegetables are just the material part. 4 |
| • | Antiquity is the aristocracy of history. 3 |
| • | In love, the one who doubts, accuses. 3 |
| • | All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! 3 |
| • | Silence is the last joy of the unhappy. |
| • | Women are never so strong as after a defeat. |
| • | Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. |
| • | I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. |
| • | God orders a man to do all he can to save his life. |
| • | – I don't believe in God. – That doesn't matter, He believes in you. |
| • | How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure! |
| • | Happiness is egotistical. |
| • | Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. |
| • | I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. |
| • | God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge. |
| • | The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. |
| • | Order is the key to all problems. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Be kind. Aim for my heart. |
| • | I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. |
| • | The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. |
| • | A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and fight against himself. |
| • | Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. |
| • | For all evils there are two remedies: time and silence. |
| • | Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. |
| • | All for one, one for all, that is our motto. |
| • | You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances. |
| • | Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is only a man; royalty is the spirit of God. |
| • | Sleeping on a plank has one advantage: it encourages early rising. |
| • | Milady knew it well, her greatest seduction was in her voice, which so skilfully traversed the whole range of tones, from human speech to celestial language. |
| • | Yes, I insulted him; but I wanted to fight with him, and when you want to fight with people you have to insult them. |
