It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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