Quotes by Karr, Alphonse




Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (November 24, 1808 - September 29, 1890), French critic, journalist and novelist..

"We can invent only with memory."

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

Karr, Alphonse on love
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"The more things change, the more they remain the same."

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"Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have."

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

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"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."

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

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