226 Quotes by Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

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

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.