Alphonse Karr quotes
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“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
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“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”
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“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.”
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“Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”
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“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”
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“A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”
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“Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.”
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“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”
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“Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”
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“If women only knew the extent of their power!”
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“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”
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“The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.”
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“Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.”
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“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 KarrSource : Alphonse Karr, Rev. J. Wood (1855). “A Tour Round My Garden”, p.135
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“Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”
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“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”
-- Alphonse KarrSource : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 111), 1886.
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“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”
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“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”
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“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.”
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“If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.”
-- Alphonse KarrSource : 'Les Guêpes' January 1849
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“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.”
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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
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“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”
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“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
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“One expresses well only the love he does not feel.”
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“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”
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