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You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault – that they have not yet had time to become old.
– Alexandre Dumas

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  1. The truth is that you are afraid.”Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean. – Alexandre Dumas
  2. There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. – Alexandre Dumas
  3. Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D’Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it. – Alexandre Dumas
  4. In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests. – Alexandre Dumas
  5. Women are never so strong as after their defeat. – Alexandre Dumas
  6. we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows. – Alexandre Dumas
  7. D’Artagnan had time to reflect that women – those gentle doves – treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. – Alexandre Dumas
  8. We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. – Alexandre Dumas
  9. To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity. – Alexandre Dumas
  10. Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. – Alexandre Dumas
  11. We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. – Alexandre Dumas
  12. I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting. – Alexandre Dumas
  13. Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady – Alexandre Dumas
  14. My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future. – Alexandre Dumas
  15. There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door. – Alexandre Dumas
  16. Man does not steal, he conquers – Alexandre Dumas
  17. So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. – Alexandre Dumas
  18. In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. – Alexandre Dumas
  19. Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream. – Alexandre Dumas
  20. MY GOD!’ read Monte Cristo, ‘LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY! – Alexandre Dumas
  21. Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. – Alexandre Dumas
  22. Sometimes salvation is found in agony. – Alexandre Dumas
  23. Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire. – Alexandre Dumas
  24. Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. – Alexandre Dumas
  25. No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D’Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer. – Alexandre Dumas
  26. Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. – Alexandre Dumas
  27. Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more. – Alexandre Dumas fils
  28. As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. – Alexandre Dumas
  29. Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. – Alexandre Dumas
  30. The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry. – Alexandre Dumas
  31. God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers. – Alexandre Dumas
  32. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. – Alexandre Dumas
  33. …remember that what has once been done may be done again. – Alexandre Dumas
  34. How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you! – Alexandre Dumas
  35. these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after – Alexandre Dumas
  36. Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection. – Alexandre Dumas
  37. All for one and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas
  38. All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. – Alexandre Dumas
  39. Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found. – SA Tawks
  40. It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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