22 Quotations by Agnes Repplier
- 1. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stoppin ...
- 2. A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to exc ...
- 3. Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
- 4. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
- 5. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
- 6. In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers ...
- 7. It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an ...
- 8. It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh
- 9. It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fa ...
- 10. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- 11. It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift cont ...
- 12. People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- 13. The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
- 14. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he doe ...
- 15. The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
- 16. There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- 17. There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
- 18. There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
- 19. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- 20. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measur ...
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