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Top 25 Alphonse Karr Quotes (2025 Update)

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”

1. “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

2. “Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.”

3. “Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

4. “If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “The more the change, the more it is the same thing.”

5. “The more the change, the more it is the same thing.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.”

6. “If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.”

7. “If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”

8. “Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

10. “Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “We can invent only with memory.”

12. “We can invent only with memory.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

13. “Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Women’s glances express what they dare not speak.”

14. “Women’s glances express what they dare not speak.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”

15. “Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.”

16. “Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “If women only knew the extent of their power!”

17. “If women only knew the extent of their power!”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”

18. “All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”

20. “Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”

21. “A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

22. “I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

23. “Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “One expresses well only the love he does not feel.”

24. “One expresses well only the love he does not feel.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.”

25. “Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”

26. “A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Alphonse Karr

Alphonse Karr Quote: “Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”

28. “Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”

— Alphonse Karr

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