Top 31 Alphonse Karr Quotes
#1. Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
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#2. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
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#3. If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
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#4. Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
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#5. Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
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#6. Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
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#8. A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
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#9. One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
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#10. I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times.
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#11. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
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#14. There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
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#16. If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
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#20. All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.
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#21. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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#22. Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
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#23. Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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#24. Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
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#25. Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
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#26. If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
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#27. Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
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#28. Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
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#29. 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.
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#30. A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
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