Alexandre Dumas quotes

Nothing succeeds like success.
- Alexandre Dumas

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
- Alexandre Dumas

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
- Alexandre Dumas

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

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
- 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

Business, that’s easily defined; it’s other people’s money.
- Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas

Truth is very liable to be left-handed in history.
- 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

The way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.
- 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

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
- Alexandre Dumas

We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
- Alexandre Dumas

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
- Alexandre Dumas

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
- Alexandre Dumas

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.
- Alexandre Dumas

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
- Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
- Alexandre Dumas

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
- Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
- Alexandre Dumas