Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr Flower Copy Share Image
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr Book Copy Share Image
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. — Alphonse Karr Audacious Copy Share Image
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr Accomplishment Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr Doubt Copy Share Image
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. — Alphonse Karr Calmness Copy Share Image
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. — Alphonse Karr Friendship Copy Share Image
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its… — Alphonse Karr Dreams Copy Share Image
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 Hope Copy Share Image
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. — Alphonse Karr Business Copy Share Image
“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 Doubt Copy Share Image
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable. — Alphonse Karr Flatters Copy Share Image
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. — Alphonse Karr Bottom Copy Share Image
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr Complaints Copy Share Image
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr Abolish Copy Share Image
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. — Alphonse Karr Captains Copy Share Image
“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.” — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. — Alphonse Karr Character Copy Share Image
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like… — Alphonse Karr Brain Copy Share Image
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give… — Alphonse Karr Complaining Copy Share Image
