Alphonse Karr Quotes & Sayings

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

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

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. — Alphonse Karr

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. — 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

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

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

We can invent only with memory. — Alphonse Karr

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

If women only knew the extent of their power! — Alphonse Karr

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr

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

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

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. — Alphonse Karr

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. — 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 had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. — Alphonse Karr

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

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

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

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

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

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. — Alphonse Karr

The more the change, the more it is the same thing. — Alphonse Karr