Agnes Repplier quotes

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist and a prominent figure in literary criticism. Known for her wit and sharp insights, she wrote extensively on culture, literature, and social issues. She became one of America’s most respected writers of her time. Here are 29 of her quotes:

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. (Agnes Repplier)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. View quote
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. View quote
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. View quote
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. View quote
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. View quote
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. View quote
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. View quote
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. View quote
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. View quote
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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. (Agnes Repplier)
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. View quote
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. View quote
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. View quote
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. View quote
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. View quote
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. View quote
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. View quote
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. (Agnes Repplier)
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. View quote
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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. View quote
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. View quote
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other. View quote
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Agnes Repplier

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: April 1, 1855
Died: November 15, 1950
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Agnes Repplier

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