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
ingredients haste essentials
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
character french-critic man
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
french-critic
The more things change, the more they are the same.
french-critic remain
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
flirting doe wells
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
ideas dresses great-business
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
memories
We can invent only with memory.
marriage beautiful dream
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
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.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
sex book writing
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.