Dumas Quote by Bianca Bosker

“The Count of Monte Cristo,' which I had seen James O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew. This play,…

— Willa Cather

“As Capp would remember, his paternal grandfather’s early years in the store were characterized by success and expansion—until, that is, he discovered the works…

— Denis Kitchen

“I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my…

— Alexandre Dumas

“At the time when Pope Pius VII had to leave Rome, which had been conquered by revolutionary French, the committee of the Chamber of…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Q: Are there any secrets to long-lasting relationships?     A: Infidelity. Not the act itself, but the threat of it. For Proust, an injection of…

— Esther Perel

“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 of whites.”

— Tom Reiss

“Alex Dumas had the confidence that accompanies a life of physical exploits, along with an unwavering faith in the rightness of his actions that…

— Tom Reiss

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

— Felicity Huffman

“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas tries to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The real Dumas was imprisoned by Librans ages ago in an unlaid chicken's egg. I fed the hen to the alligators myself. Slow digestion…

— Daniel Scott Westby

“The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the…

— Tom Reiss

Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work,…

— Jerry Saltz