Agnes Repplier Quotes & Sayings

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

“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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