Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

We can invent only with memory.

— Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

If women only knew the extent of their power!

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

— Alphonse Karr

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its…

— Alphonse Karr

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like…

— Alphonse Karr

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've…

— Alphonse Karr

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give…

— Alphonse Karr

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

— Alphonse Karr

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

— Alphonse Karr

“I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don’t know >> two times.”

— Alphonse Karr