The quotations of

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist

1802–1870

18 quotes, most often on Love, Education and Life & Death.

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.
- Motivation & Goals
Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
- Men
- Women
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
- Love
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
- Children
- Education
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Père, as quoted in Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground (2007) by Jennifer J. Deal, p. 9
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
- Intelligence
All for one, one for all, that is our motto.
The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 9: D’Artagnan Shows Himself.In context
- Friendship
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 17In context
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Happiness
- Life & Death
Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter XLVIIIIn context
- Life & Death
- Philosophy
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 2In context
- Money
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that 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.’
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Hope
- Wisdom
Moral wounds have this peculiarity,⁠—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Four, Chapter 86In context
- Emotion
Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 35In context
- Anger
- Justice
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 5In context
- Happiness

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