It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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