Alphonse Karr Quotes

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

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.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.