Alexandre Dumas Quotes

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The man who cannot laugh is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

We suppose mankind more honest than they are.

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

We won't get fooled again!

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!