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.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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