Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger ve…

- Alberto Santos-Dumont

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

- Alberto Santos-Dumont

Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, pi…

- Alberto Santos-Dumont

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-…

- Alberto Santos-Dumont

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

- Alberto Santos-Dumont