It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASKnow you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
-
-
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
It is rare 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Pain, thou art not an evil.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Happiness is egotistical.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS