“Wine,” declared the nineteenth-century novelist Alexandre Dumas, “is the intellectual part of the meal.” — Bianca Bosker Copy Share Image
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did. — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
“DUMAS’S appearance made quite an impression on the Egyptians—a tall black man in a general’s uniform at the head of an army… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“The Count of Monte Cristo,' which I had seen James O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The real Dumas was imprisoned by Librans ages ago in an unlaid chicken's egg. I fed the hen to the alligators myself.… — Daniel Scott Westby Copy Share Image
Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Dumas was possibly the strongest man in the French army.… In the riding school he liked to stand up in the stirrups,… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another," General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“Fernand," cried he, "of my hundred names I need only tell you one, to overwhelm you! But you guess it now do… — Dumas, Alexandre Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas , where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Alex Dumas had the confidence that accompanies a life of physical exploits, along with an unwavering faith in the rightness of his… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As Capp would remember, his paternal grandfather’s early years in the store were characterized by success and expansion—until, that is, he discovered… — Denis Kitchen Copy Share Image
“In all his adventures, the main thing that set Dumas apart was his refusal to countenance the bullying of the weak by… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
