Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Friendship takes time.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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