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

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

We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr

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

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

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