whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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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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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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