The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIERThe perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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 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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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