We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
AGNES REPPLIERFor indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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