Alexandre Dumas People Quotations

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.