Alexandre Dumas Professions : Writer Born : July 24, 1802 Died : December 5, 1870 Browse All Authors Top 187 quotes by Alexandre Dumas Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others. Alexandre Dumas Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumas A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Alexandre Dumas enemies person man failure Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Alexandre Dumas achieve impossible love art All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas words human wait wisdom hope He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. Alexandre Dumas alone brain world thinking I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas rest because take sometimes Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors