Agnes Repplier Quotes

"In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin."
-Agnes Repplier

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
-Agnes Repplier

"The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced."
-Agnes Repplier

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals."
-Agnes Repplier

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
-Agnes Repplier in Truth quotes.

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
-Agnes Repplier

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

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
-Agnes Repplier in Humor quotes.

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
-Agnes Repplier in Cats quotes.

"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 complaisance to make us hunger for more."
-Agnes Repplier

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
-Agnes Repplier

"There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join."
-Agnes Repplier in Laughter quotes.