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Alphonse Karr
French
Critic
About the author
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Happiness
We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Memory
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Regret
#Reality
#Uncertainty
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Change
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#People
#Roses
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#People
#Virtue
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,
French
Critic
#Love
#Dreams
#Happiness
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Love
#End
#Accomplishment
#Marriage
#Dream
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Death
#Friends
#First
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,
French
Critic
#Hope
#Wife
#Misfortune
#Sleep
#Yesterday
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Man
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Alphonse Karr,
French
Critic
#Men
#Women