Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
If women only knew the extent of their power!
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
We can invent only with memory.
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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.
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
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.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.