Alphonse Karr Quotes

22 quotes in 187 categories

• We can invent only with memory.
• Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
• 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…
• All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
• 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.
• I am thankful that thorns have roses.
• Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
• Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
• Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
• 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.
• 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…
• The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
• Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
• 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.
• If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.

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