226 Quotes by Agnes Repplier

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.