Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
AGNES REPPLIERThe delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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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.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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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.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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