Alphonse Karr Quotes

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

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.

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

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.

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.

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.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

We can invent only with memory.

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.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.