quotes by Alexandre Dumas

"...all human wisdom was contained in these two words: wait and hope"
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))

"Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!"
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."
— Alexandre Dumas

""Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.""
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas

" All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
— Alexandre Dumas

""Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.""
— Alexandre Dumas

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

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— Alexandre Dumas

"...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))

"When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything."
— Alexandre Dumas (Twenty Years After)

"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"
— Alexandre Dumas

"For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart."
— Alexandre Dumas

"What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"...women are never so strong as after their defeat."
— Alexandre Dumas (Queen Margot, or, Marguerite de Valois)

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
— Alexandre Dumas

"Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: 'Cherchez la femme'.

(Les Mohicans de Paris) 1854"
— Alexandre Dumas

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living. Live, then, and be happy...and never forget that...all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, -- `Wait and hope.'"
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))

"...that lovely brow, around which stars of diamonds formed a tremulous circlet..."
— Alexandre Dumas (Queen Margot, or, Marguerite de Valois)

"...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."
— Alexandre Dumas (Queen Margot, or, Marguerite de Valois)

"Life is very tenacious in these lawyers."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))