An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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