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.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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