Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas père (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. ...more

Birth: July 24, 1802 - Death: December 05, 1870

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground…they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

Topic(s): Heart , May , Has Beens

…remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Topic(s): May , Done , Remember

Haste is a poor counselor

Topic(s): Poor , Haste , Counselor

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Topic(s): Has Beens , Father , Judging

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.

Topic(s): Heart , Done , Gratitude

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Topic(s): Challenges , Three , Four

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Topic(s): Firsts , Seems , Language

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Topic(s): Knows , Dream , Fortunate

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Topic(s): Fortune , Thread , Slender

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Topic(s): Firsts , Has Beens , Father

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Topic(s): Ifs , Humans , Wells

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