It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is a thing capable of proof.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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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 dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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