Alphonse Karr
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.Collection: Hope
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Collection: Marriage
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.Collection: Women
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.Collection: Thankful
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.Collection: Dreams
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.Collection: Death
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.Collection: Happiness
The more things change, the more they are the same.Collection: Change
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
We can invent only with memory.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.Collection: Character
The more things change, the more they stay the same.Collection: Change
I am thankful that thorns have roses.Collection: Rose
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.Collection: Haste
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.Collection: Education
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.Collection: Friendship
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Rose
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Collection: Integrity
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.Collection: Flirting
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Sweet
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.Collection: Sex
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.Collection: Vision
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.Collection: Eye
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.Collection: Captains
If women only knew the extent of their power!Collection: Ifs
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.Collection: Ideas