alexandre-dumas Quotes About knows

“...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

Knows Night Stars Darkness Sun

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

Knows Lovers Drunkards

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”

Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

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

Knows Philosophy Memories Learners Monte Cristo

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

Knows Men Wells Ideas Feelings Interest Fellows Dear Obstacles Remove Interest In Politics

Book:Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

“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 it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

Knows Men World Love Life Humans Two States Feelings Order Felt Waiting Know How This World Despair Capable Ultimate Bliss Comparison Unhappiness Human Wisdom

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Knows Men Doe Perfect Half Know How Battle Monte Cristo

Book:Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —”

Knows Feelings Despair Jest

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

Knows Men Opportunity Waiting Know How Gains Rounds Dear Dear Friend Musketeers Three Musketeers

Book:ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

“That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?”

Knows Dream Fortunate Awakened

Book:ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

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