Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

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

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

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.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Pain, thou art not an evil

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

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.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo