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
ifs
If women only knew the extent of their power!
dream passion love-is
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.
character thinking people
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
rose thorns i-am-thankful
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
inspirational positive happiness
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
french-critic remain
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
sex book writing
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.