Agnes Repplier Quotes

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.

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.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.