Alexandre Dumas quotes

Nothing succeeds like success.

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

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.

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 necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.