Best 25 quotes of Alphonse Karr on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

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

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

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

We can invent only with memory.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses: Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux; Moi je me réjouis et rends grâces aux dieux Que les épines aient des roses.

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.