For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
AGNES REPPLIERLaughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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