Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was a French novelist and playwright of the Romantic movement, born on 24 July 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts.
Writing in the French language, Dumas produced work across both the stage and the novel. His notable works include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, and La Reine Margot. These titles place him within the current of French Romanticism, a movement with which he is formally associated.
Over the course of his life, Dumas received recognition from several governments and institutions. France awarded him both the Knight and the Officer grades of the Legion of Honour. Beyond his home country, he received the Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, the Order of Isabella the Catholic, the Order of Charles III, and the Order of Glory — a range of distinctions that reflects the international attention his writing drew during his lifetime.
Dumas died on 5 December 1870 near Dieppe, in the area of Puys. A novelist and playwright who worked entirely in French, he left behind a body of notable works — from The Three Musketeers and its sequel Twenty Years After to The Count of Monte Cristo and La Reine Margot — that mark him as a significant figure within French Romanticism.
Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas's insights on:
It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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.
That is a dream also, only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope'.
Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.
The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.
Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.