Alexandre Dumas

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.

Happiness is egotistical.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

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

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

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.

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

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

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

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.

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.

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

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

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

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.

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

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

All for one and one for all.

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

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

All for one, and one for all.

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

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all.

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

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

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.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

Be good, be young, be true. Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.