Agnes Repplier Quotes
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Humor, Irony, Tolerance, Understanding)
"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Contrast, Democracy, Ideals, Possibilities)
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Conversation, Talk)
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Nothing, Remarkable)
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Humor, Gods, Nothing)
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: People, Civilization, Absurdity)
"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Education, Force, Mind)
"There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join."
- Agnes Repplier
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Truth)
"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: May, Tourists)
"The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Rights, Mirth, World)
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Past, Present)
"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: World)
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Nature, Laughter)
"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Thought, Conversation)
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Happiness)
"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Cats, Friends, Hunger)
"We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Love)
"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Love)
"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Civilization, Spring, Tea)
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Leisure, Man, Pleasure, Self)