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.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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