It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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For 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.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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 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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