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
french-critic remain
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
rose thorns i-am-thankful
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
regret reality evil
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
sweet water remembrance
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.
ingredients haste essentials
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
courage men thinking
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
education art latin
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
eye two talking
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
sleep yesterday wife
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.
captains firsts widows
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
vision speak glances
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
friendship taken firsts
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
beauty fruit ifs
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
change birthday more-the-merrier
The more things change, the more they stay the same.