I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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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 essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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.
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