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Famous Agnes Repplier Quotes
Source: Compromises
Source: Americans and Others
“People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.”
Source: Counter-Currents
Source: Varia
“Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.”
Source: Varia
Source: Essays in Idleness
“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.”
Source: Points of Friction
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
Source: Points of View
“Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.”
Source: Compromises
Source: Varia
“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”
Source: Compromises
“When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.”
Source: To Think of Tea!
Source: Varia
“the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.”
Source: Essays in Idleness
“Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.”
Source: Compromises
Source: Americans and Others
“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”
Source: Americans and Others
“Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.”
Source: Counter-Currents
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
Source: Counter-Currents
“An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Source: Essays in Idleness
“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
Source: Points of View
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
Source: Essays in Miniature
“We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.”
Source: Books and Men
“A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.”
“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.”
Source: Compromises
Source: Points of View
Source: Books and Men