Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

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.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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

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

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.