100 Top Quotes By Alexandre Dumas, The Author Of The Three Musketeers
Dumas Devy de la Pailleterie, popularly known as Alexandre Dumas, was a French author who lived in the 19th century and is credited for writing some of the most wildly popular stories in French, that went on to become bestsellers all over the world. Dumas was born in an aristocratic family in France and that helped him finding his feet as an author from a young age. Initially, he was a writer of plays but it was as a novelist he found true fame and some of his most famous works include ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘The Victome de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later’, ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Twenty Years After’. The novels proved to be huge successes and have been read by people from all across the world. In addition to that, the novels have also been made into films hundreds of times by film producers in different parts of the world. Dumas was also a regular contributor in several magazines of the time and was a noted travel writer as well. Needless to say, Dumas was a man of great intellect and wit, which is why it is not a surprise that he has left behind a rich collection of quotes. Here are some of the selected ones.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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.
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.
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
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.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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.
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 generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...
