Agnes Repplier Quotes

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. - Agnes Repplier

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. - Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. - Agnes Repplier

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. - Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. - Agnes Repplier

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. - Agnes Repplier

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. - Agnes Repplier

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