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Agnes Repplier

b: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Apr 1, 1855

d: , Nov 15, 1950

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.

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

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

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.

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

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Letter writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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

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

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 unconvinced.

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

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

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

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!