Alexandre Dumas

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

It is only rarely 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.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

What distresses me is to see that human genius has limits and human stupidity none.

Tous pour un, un pour tous.

Begin with something interesting rather than beginning with something boring; begin with action rather than beginning with background information; speak about the characters after they have appeared rather than having them appear after having spoken about them.