Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIERWe owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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It 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.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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