The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
AGNES REPPLIERThe cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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