Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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