Alexandre Dumas Quotes - Page 3

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.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

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

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

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

Happiness is egotistical.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

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

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

God is always the last resource.

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.