A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Aversion Copy Share Image
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier Forever Copy Share Image
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are… — Agnes Repplier Amused Copy Share Image
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to… — Agnes Repplier Break Copy Share Image
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a… — Agnes Repplier Blessing Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join — Agnes Repplier Irritated Copy Share Image
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things… — Agnes Repplier Discussion Copy Share Image
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. — Agnes Repplier Criticism Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier Jokes Copy Share Image
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. — Agnes Repplier Beggar Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Art Copy Share Image
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. — Agnes Repplier Education Copy Share Image
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs… — Agnes Repplier Animation Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Creeds Copy Share Image
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier Contrast Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier All time Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Begging Copy Share Image
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the… — Agnes Repplier Assured Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Absurdity Copy Share Image
