Alexandre Dumas Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“Nothing succeeds like success.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

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

“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.”