226 Quotes by Agnes Repplier

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ...

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.