Alphonse Karr
12 quotes
Biography
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
"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 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."
"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
"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."
"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."
"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are."
"The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)"
"The more things change the more they remain the same."
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has."