Alexandre Dumas
French Novelist and Playwright
| Date of Birth | : | 24 Jul, 1802 |
| Date of Death | : | 05 Dec, 1870 |
| Place of Birth | : | Villers-Cotterêts, France |
| Profession | : | Novelist, Playwright |
| Nationality | : | French |
Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
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.
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
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.
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
