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.

More Quotes by Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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.

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

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

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

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