226 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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!

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.