The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERArt… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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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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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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