There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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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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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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