Author: Alphonse Karr

Quotes

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

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

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

- Alphonse Karr

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

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

- Alphonse Karr

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

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

- Alphonse Karr

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 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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

- Alphonse Karr

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