Agnes Repplier Quotes

Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.