Alphonse Karr Quotes

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

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

  Alphonse Karr

  Character, Thinking, People

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

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  Change, Birthday, More The Merrier

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• I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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  Rose, Thorns, I Am Thankful

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• Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

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  Haste, Essentials, Ingredients

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• Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

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  Education, Art, Latin

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• 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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  Happiness, Dream, Passion

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• Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

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  Friendship, Two, Plot

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• 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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  Rose, Giving, Trying

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

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  Regret, Reality, Evil

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• If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

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  Beauty, Fruit, Ifs

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• Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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  Happiness, Happy, Joy

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

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  Courage, Men, Thinking

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• The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

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

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  Integrity, Character, Angel

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• 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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  Sweet, Water, Remembrance

  Alphonse Karr, Rev. J. Wood (1855). “A Tour Round My Garden”, p.135

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• One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

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  Flirting, Doe, Wells

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• Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

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  Vision, Speak, Glances

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

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  Friendship, Death, Taken

  'Les Guêpes' January 1849

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• A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

  Alphonse Karr

  Sex, Book, Writing

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• Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

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  Thinking, People, Virtue

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

  Alphonse Karr

  Love, Marriage, Beautiful

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• We can invent only with memory.

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  Memories, Invention, Recollection

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• Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

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  Eye, Talking, Two

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• Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

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