Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
AGNES REPPLIERWhatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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