Alexandre Dumas, fils quotes

Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. (Alexandre Dumas, fils)
Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Christianity is ever-present, with its wonderful parable of the prodigal son, to urge us to counsels of forbearance and forgiveness. Jesus was full of love for souls of women wounded by the passions of men, and He loved to bind their wounds, drawing from those same wounds the balm which would heal them. Thus he said to Mary Magdalene: "Your sins, which are many, shall be forgiven, because you loved much?" a sublime pardon which was to awaken a sublime faith. Why should we judge more strictly than Christ? Why, clinging stubbornly to the opinions of the world which waxes hard so that we shall think it strong, why should we too turn away souls that bleed from wounds oozing with the evil of their past, like infected blood from a sick body, as they wait only for a friendly hand to bind them up and restore them to a convalescent heart? View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
It is possible to become a painter, a sculptor, or a musician by study, but not a dramatic poet; a man is so either at once or never, as he is blonde or brown, and cannot help it. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Men and women go to the theatre only to hear of love, and to take part in the pains or in the joys that it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
That world begins where the lawful wife finishes; it finishes where the venal wife begins. It is divided from the world of honest women by the public scandal it provokes; it is divided from the world of courtesans by money. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
In the interest of the dictionaries of the future let me lay down the principle that the Demi-Monde, contrary to the common belief and in spite of what is printed, does not represent the ruck of courtesans, but the class of women that have lost caste. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils