The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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 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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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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