Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karrwas a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his niece Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth24 November 1808
CountryFrance
Alphonse Karr quotes about
ingredients haste essentials
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
captains firsts widows
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
beauty fruit ifs
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
flirting doe wells
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
french-critic
The more things change, the more they are the same.