Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

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

History is but the nail on which the picture hangs.

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.

Let us look for the woman.

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

It is only rarely 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.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

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.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

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

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

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.

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.

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

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

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

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.