Agnes Repplier's Quotes

Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist.

Agnes Repplier's selected quotes:

Agnes Repplier about Learn:

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that ...
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Agnes Repplier about Past:

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save ...
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Agnes Repplier about Laugh:

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

Agnes Repplier about Nature:

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Agnes Repplier about Happiness:

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find ...
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Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist.

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Agnes Repplier about Pet:

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier about Conversation:

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Agnes Repplier about Democracy:

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Agnes Repplier about Humor:

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier about Humor:

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier about Hurt:

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Agnes Repplier about Spring:

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier about Education:

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Agnes Repplier about Man:

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 about Pet:

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 about Happiness:

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier about Learn:

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 about People:

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier about World:

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Agnes Repplier about Nature:

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Agnes Repplier about World:

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Agnes Repplier about Past:

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier about May:

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Agnes Repplier about Truth:

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier about Laugh:

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

Agnes Repplier about Love:

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.