Quotes by Alexandre Dumas Père

“Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole”

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

“Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives”

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

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for theres no risk of accident for someone whos dead.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it”

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

“It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing”

“Ones work may be finished some day, but ones education never”

“The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but cant remember having received it.”

“Once mention the word independence, or that of Italy, and he ( Giuseppe Garibaldi) becomes a volcano in eruption”