Alphonse Karr — French Critic born on November 24, 1808, died on September 29, 1890

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was 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)

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
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.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
The more things change, the more they are the same.