Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Alphonse Karr

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Alphonse Karr.
Last updated on December 7, 2024.
Alphonse Karr

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — © Alphonse Karr
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
We can invent only with memory.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. — © Alphonse Karr
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
If women only knew the extent of their power!
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
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