Alphonse Karr Quotes

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

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

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.

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

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

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

We can invent only with memory.

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

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

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

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

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

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

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.