Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
AGNES REPPLIERThere 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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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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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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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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