Quotes by Agnes Repplier

• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
• People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
• It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
• There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
• There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
• The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
• The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
• The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
• 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.
• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
• 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.
• We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
• It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.