Alphonse Karr Quotes
"We can invent only with memory."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Memory)
"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Reality, Regret, Uncertainty)
"The more things change, the more they are the same."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Change)
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: People, Roses)
"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: People, Virtue)
"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
(Related: Dreams, Happiness, Love)
"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Love, Marriage, Dream, Accomplishment, End)
"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Death, First, Friends)
"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
(Related: Wife, Hope, Misfortune, Sleep, Yesterday)
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Man)
"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."
- Alphonse Karr
(Related: Men, Women)