What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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