Alphonse KarrThinkers

The Bathroom is the kitchen of beauty. Every woman, every day, cooks up her charms, which she must serve in the evening to staring admiration.

Beauty is a fruit that can be eaten raw.

Botany is not a science; it is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Botany is the art of drying plants between sheets of paper and call them names in Greek and Latin.

A Bouquet is no flower — few women love flowers; all women love bouquets.

The Compliment is always a wise course — it is better to make a woman blush than to make her laugh.

Dating is a hunt where the hunter must get hunted by the game.

The Flower is forever distinguished from the woman in this: the flowers are beautiful - and do not know it.

Happiness is made up of unhappiness that you have managed to avoid.

Happiness is like a target: when you aim at it from too far away, you miss it.

A Journalist is a lawyer who writes.

A Kiss is an inquiry sent on the second floor as to whether the first floor is free.