Parenting Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

8 Parenting quotes by Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas’s eight parenting snippets bring his adventurous storytelling into brief, lively reflections on family dynamics, making for an entertaining quick read.

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“No, Maximilien, I am not offended," answered she, "but do you not see what a poor, helpless being I am, almost a…

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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only…

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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my…

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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because…

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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,…

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“it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children,…

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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

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“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot…

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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

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“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for…

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“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force…

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“A man is always in a hurry to be happy.”

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“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.”

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“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.”

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“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to…

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“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's…

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

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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

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“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good…

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“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.”

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“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.”

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