Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – November 15, 1950) was an American essayist. Read full biography of Agnes Repplier →
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.
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... →
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.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
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.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – November 15, 1950) was an American essayist.