WIST Quotations

Dumas, Alexandre pere -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:32:13 +0000

The custom and fashion of to-day will be the awkwardness and outrage of to-morrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws.

Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) French novelist and dramatist
(Attributed)

Quoted in James Comper Gray, The Biblical Museum: Old Testament, vol. 3 (1878 ed.).

Dumas, Alexandre pere -- My Memoirs [Mes Mémoires], ch. 113 (1852-1856) [tr. Waller (1907); 1826-1830: Vol. 3, Book 2, ch. 10]

Dave — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:12:30 +0000

One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education, never!

[L’oeuvre est terminée un jour; l’éducation jamais!]

Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) French novelist and dramatist
My Memoirs [Mes Mémoires], ch. 113 (1852-1856) [tr. Waller (1907); 1826-1830: Vol. 3, Book 2, ch. 10]

(Source (French)).

Dumas, Alexandre pere -- The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noire], ch. 28 (1850)

Dave — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:08:09 +0000

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) French novelist and dramatist
The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noire], ch. 28 (1850)