Quotes of Agnes Repplier - somelinesforyou

“ We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ 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

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

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

- 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

“ 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 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

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

- Agnes Repplier

“ What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ”

- 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

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

- Agnes Repplier

“ We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Agnes Repplier

“ 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

“ Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. ”

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Agnes Repplier

“ What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ”

- 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. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. ”

- 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

“ 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
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