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Alexandre Dumas

b: Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France, Jul 24, 1802

d: Puys, France, Dec 5, 1870

Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

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

A dramatist should ask himself three questions: In this situation, what should I do? What would other people do? What ought to be done?

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

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

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, and one for all.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

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

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

French:Rien ne réussit comme le succès.

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

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

I confess, that nothing frightens me more than the appearance of mushrooms on the table, especially in a small provincial town.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Let us look for the woman.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate. -

Nothing succeeds like success.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

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

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

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

You are one of the forces of nature.