Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karrwas a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his niece Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth24 November 1808
CountryFrance
giving rose trying
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.
vision speak glances
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
happiness joy avoided
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
friendship taken firsts
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
thinking people virtue
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
eye two talking
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
friendship two plot
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
water shallow bottom
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
change birthday more-the-merrier
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
ingredients haste essentials
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
sweet water remembrance
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.
courage men thinking
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
regret reality evil
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
character men thinking
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.