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Alphonse Karr [1808-1890] French

Rank: 101
Critic, Journalist

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.

Quote	Tags	Rank
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.	Thankful	101
The more things change, the more they are the same.	Change	102
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.	Men, Women	103
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.	Death	104
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.	Dreams, Happiness	105
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.	Hope	106
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.		107
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.	Happiness	108
We can invent only with memory.		109
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.	Marriage	110
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.		111
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.		112

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