Alphonse Karr famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Rose #Thorns #I Am Thankful
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Character #Thinking #People
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

#Dream #Passion #Love Is
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Character #Men #Thinking
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Men #Thinking #Twenties
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Widows #Captains #Firsts
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Ideas #Dresses #Great Business
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Friendship #Two #Plot
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
-- Alphonse Karr
If women only knew the extent of their power!
-- Alphonse Karr
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Sex #Book #Writing
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
-- Alphonse Karr
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Eye #Talking #Two
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

#Sweet #Water #Remembrance
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Haste #Essentials #Ingredients
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Water #Shallow #Shallow Water
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Education #Art #Latin
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Vision #Speak #Glances
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Regret #Reality #Evil
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Friendship #Taken #Firsts
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

#Sleep #Yesterday #Wife
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Change #Birthday #Things Change
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Marriage #Beautiful #Dream
We can invent only with memory.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Memories
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Happiness #Joy #Misfortunes
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Flirting #Doe #Wells
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Thinking #People #Virtue

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