it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
AGNES REPPLIERWit 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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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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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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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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