Alphonse Karr Quotes

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Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. If women knew what men think, they would be twenty times more coquettish.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale, only on condition that no one takes a part at retail.

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The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses.

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

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Love in marriage would be the realization of a beautiful dream, if marriage were not too often the end of it.

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

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If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits.

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A woman who writes commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

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To swear to love always is to affirm that two beings essentially changeable will never change.

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At a ball, men are the timid sex, and also the feebler sex; for they are always the first to be fatigued.

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In that case, if we are to abolish the death penalty, let the murderers take the first step.

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In life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on a man above her.

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In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love; as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance.

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The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others.

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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.

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If one wants to abolish the death penalty in this case, murderers should take the first step: they do not kill, we will not kill them.

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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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

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That immense majority, the fools, who made the laws that regulate the manners of the world, very naturally made them for their own benefit.

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One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth.

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