Quotes by Repplier, Agnes

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes on absurdity
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"There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania..."

Repplier, Agnes on egotism   

"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."

Repplier, Agnes on fallibility   

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

Repplier, Agnes on happiness
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

Repplier, Agnes on irony   

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."

Repplier, Agnes on laughter
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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."

Repplier, Agnes on perception   

"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."

Repplier, Agnes on pessimism   

"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."

Repplier, Agnes on risk   

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

Repplier, Agnes on tea   

"A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development."

Repplier, Agnes on villains   

"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."

Repplier, Agnes on conversation