Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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