Alphonse Karr's Quotes

Alphonse Karr's selected quotes:

Alphonse Karr about Death:

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step ...
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Alphonse Karr about Hope:

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I ...
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Alphonse Karr about Women:

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Alphonse Karr about Love:

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too ...
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Alphonse Karr about Love:

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions, it is the ...
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Alphonse Karr about Man:

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr about Hope:

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.

Alphonse Karr about Women:

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Alphonse Karr about Happiness:

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr about Death:

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

Alphonse Karr about Love:

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Karr about Love:

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.

Alphonse Karr about Thankful:

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

Alphonse Karr about People:

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr about Change:

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

Alphonse Karr about Memory:

We can invent only with memory.

Alphonse Karr about Moment:

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