43 Quotes by Alphonse Karr

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;Moi je me réjouis et rends grâces aux dieuxQue les épines aient des roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

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

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

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

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

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.