Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karrwas a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his niece Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile... (wikipedia)
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.
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.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
We can invent only with memory.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is 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.
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
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.
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
If women only knew the extent of their power!
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.