Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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 every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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 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.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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