Yet One More

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

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. 

Nothing succeeds like success.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Another Great Batch

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.   

Another Batch

Another batch of great quotes from Alexandre Dumas's works and some from himself.

"It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never/"

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."

"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."

Dumas on TV

There have been many, not known, TV programs of Alexandre Dumas's work as well. With the recent news that a new Three Musketeers show is in the works, I thought I'd look back on some.

The Man in The Iron Mask had a short lived run in 1968, with a total of 9 episodes. All of which are believed to be lost.

The Three Musketeers ran from 1966-1967 for a total of 26 episodes. It's last 16 were retitled The Further Adventures of The Three Musketeers.

Mr. Magoo even took a trip to The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

The Count of Monte Cristo ran for 39 episodes in 1956.

And there have even been a few animated forms of The Three Musketeers.

Even Wishbone did a take on the Count of Monte Cristo, proving the reach of the novel that much more.

The Three Musketeers

Another of Alexandre Dumas's works, The Three Musketeers, has been many incarnations in Hollywood, proving the remake was here long before stuff like Total Recall, which would be nice not to recall.

Chateau de Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas dreamed of of his own castle and when told it would cost several hundred thousand francs to create, he is supposed to have said, "I certainly hope so."

And so he got his own castle and name it after his most, arguably, famous book. He considered it his paradise on Earth.

It can even be toured today outside Paris, as it has been restored and kept in wonderful shape.

Another case of art coming to life or at least affording one the ability to make it so.

Some Great Quotes

Obviously I enjoy Alexandre Dumas's work, here are just some of the quotes that stick out from his works.

"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.”"

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."