Quotes from Alphonse Karr

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

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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

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

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

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

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