Alexandre Dumas

When unbridled love enters the heart, it gnaws away at all other feelings; it lives at the expense of honor, faith, and the given word.

A woman is like a good cup of coffee: the first time you have it, it keeps you from sleeping.

You don't need to know the danger to be afraid; in fact, unknown dangers are the ones that inspire the most fear.

If you give the impression of needing anything, you will be given nothing; to make a fortune, it is necessary to appear to be rich.

How is it that, while children are so intelligent, most men are so stupid? It must be the result of education.

Life is fascinating: you just have to look at it through the right glasses.

There are women who love their husbands so much that, in order not to use them, they take their friends'.

For every kind of trouble there are two remedies: time and silence.

Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.

The good is slow because it goes uphill. The evil is fast because it goes downhill.

We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.

Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.