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.
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.
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.
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.
flirting doe wells
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
friendship two plot
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
french-critic
The more things change, the more they are the same.
character french-critic man
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.