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.
character french-critic man
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
french-critic
The more things change, the more they are the same.
character three
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
flirting doe wells
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
ideas dresses great-business
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
memories
We can invent only with memory.
marriage beautiful dream
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
sleep yesterday wife
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.
captains firsts widows
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
education art latin
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.