Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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2. “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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3. “Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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4. “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

— Alexandre Dumas

5. “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

6. “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

— Alexandre Dumas

7. “For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.”

— Alexandre Dumas

8. “One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.”

— Alexandre Dumas

9. “If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo.”

— Alexandre Dumas

10. “Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn’t matter. He believes in you.”

— Alexandre Dumas

11. “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

— Alexandre Dumas

12. “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

— Alexandre Dumas

13. “The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”

— Alexandre Dumas

14. “I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”

— Alexandre Dumas

15. “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”

— Alexandre Dumas

16. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

18. “On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.”

— Alexandre Dumas

19. “I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.”

— Alexandre Dumas

20. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

21. “No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat. – The Count of Monte Cristo.”

— Alexandre Dumas

22. “The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”

— Alexandre Dumas

23. “Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”

— Alexandre Dumas

24. “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.”

— Alexandre Dumas

25. “It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

— Alexandre Dumas

26. “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

— Alexandre Dumas

27. “I am a Count, Not a Saint.”

— Alexandre Dumas

28. “There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”

— Alexandre Dumas

29. “So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”

— Alexandre Dumas

30. “Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

— Alexandre Dumas

31. “Be kind, aim for my heart.”

— Alexandre Dumas

32. “Pain, thou art not an evil.”

— Alexandre Dumas

33. “I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

— Alexandre Dumas

34. “All for one, one for all.”

— Alexandre Dumas

35. “All human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’“.”

— Alexandre Dumas

36. “In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.”

— Alexandre Dumas

37. “Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

38. “Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

— Alexandre Dumas

39. “I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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41. “Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

— Alexandre Dumas

42. “To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

— Alexandre Dumas

43. “If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”

— Alexandre Dumas

44. “El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.”

— Alexandre Dumas

45. “All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

— Alexandre Dumas

46. “And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all – that is our motto, is it not?”

— Alexandre Dumas

47. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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48. “There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”

— Alexandre Dumas

49. “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

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50. “Haste is a poor counselor.”

— Alexandre Dumas