Best Agnes Repplier Quotes
- The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. Complain
- It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Choices
- The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. Clear
- Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness;… Abundant
- There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join Cannot Join
- Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. From
- 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. Contact
- There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... Enjoyable
- Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it… Alert
- It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. Afflicts
- To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Given
- To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Brave
- The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Common
- What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. Been
- It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day… Always Trying
- A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being. Beloved
- Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. Criticism
- The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. Custom
- The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. Built
- What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours… Boredom
- We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some… Amenity
- Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly… Attention
- Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Genius
- The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the… Agitating
- The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. Guardian