Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 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'...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 July 1802
CityVillers-Cotterets, France
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
Through 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.
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.