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. ”

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

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. ”

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ”

We can invent only with memory. ”

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

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ”

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 my friends the murderers. ”