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Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

French dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870)

CP 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.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

It is only rarely 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.

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'.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

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

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.