Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

Humor, Friendly, Tolerance

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Happiness, Find, Easy

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

Pet, Give, Friends

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier

Love, Laugh, Cannot

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

Humor, Nothing, Off

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

Pet, Nothing, Before

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

Spring, Said, Wants

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier

Truth, Few, Naked

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

Talk, Between, Difficult

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

Sorry, Democracy, Between

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

Hurt, Dangerous, Tools

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

Love, Laugh, Cannot

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier

Education, Mind, Impossible

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier

True, Self, Lives

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.
Agnes Repplier

Thought, Learn, Contact

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier

Nature, Laughter, Lawless

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

Cannot, Absurdity, Palpable

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier

Rule, Console, Sustain

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier

Past, Die, Present

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier

Rights, Thinkers, Mirth

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier

Lost, May, Complain

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
Agnes Repplier

Laugh, Cannot, Secret

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 1, 1855

Died: November 15, 1950

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