1.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
2.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
3.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Alphonse Karr
4.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Alphonse Karr
5.
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
Alphonse Karr
6.
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.
Alphonse Karr
7.
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr
8.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr
9.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr
10.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
11.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
Alphonse Karr
12.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Alphonse Karr
13.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
Alphonse Karr
14.
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.
Alphonse Karr
15.
If women only knew the extent of their power!
Alphonse Karr
16.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
17.
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.
Alphonse Karr
18.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
19.
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
Alphonse Karr
20.
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.
Alphonse Karr
21.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Alphonse Karr
22.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Alphonse Karr
23.
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
Alphonse Karr
24.
We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr
25.
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
Alphonse Karr
26.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
27.
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
Alphonse Karr
28.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Alphonse Karr
29.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Alphonse Karr
30.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
Alphonse Karr
31.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
Alphonse Karr