Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThrough the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
-
-
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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 -
We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Know 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS