7 Quotes By Agnes Repplier


It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier on education

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier on happiness

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier on humor

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier on humor

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 on pet

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier on pet

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
Agnes Repplier on laughter