Agnes Repplier Quotes

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.