Agnes Repplier Love Quotes and Sayings

Agnes Repplier Love Quotes and Sayings

#1 Goodness and Gayety [S]

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

#2-3 Marriage in Fiction, Compromises

2. Man is never so self-revealing as when consumed by passion. We see into his heart, only when it is lit by the flame of desire.

3. It is not what a man does when he is in love, but what he does when he is out of love…which counts for characterization.

#4 French Love-Songs, Compromises

4. Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients…

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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855–November 15, 1950) was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.
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Sayings by Agnes Repplier

#1 Quoted by Agnes Repplier in Times and Tendencies

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

In Context: Always it has had for its inspiration the axiom which France borrowed from older civilizations: ‘It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.’

#2 Leisure, Essays in Idleness, Houghton, Mifflin, 1894

2. It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

#3 Times and Tendencies, Houghton Mifflin, 1931

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

#4-5 AGRIPPINA, Essays in Idleness [S]

4. But in truth it is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

5. A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the word, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

#6-7 The Luxury of Conversation, Compromises

6. A man devoted to one subject can seldom talk well upon any other. Unless his companions share his tastes and his knowledge, he must — a sad alternative — either lecture or be still.

7. 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.

#8 Goodness and Gayety, Americans and Others [S]

8. It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

#9 The Mission of Humour, Americans and Others

9. The essence of humour is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

#10 In Pursuit of Laughter, Houghton Mifflin, 1936

10. No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

#11 The Charm of the Familiar, Essays in Miniature, C. L. Webster & Company, 1892

11. Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

#12-13 Under Dispute, Houghton Mifflin, 1924

12. There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

13. To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

#14 Compromises, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904 [S]

14. …there are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

#15 Wit and Humor, Essays in Idleness

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

#16 PLEASURE: A HERESY, POINTS OF VIEW

16. …to have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life…

#17 American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier, Agnes Repplier, John Lukacs, ISI Books, 2009

17. Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

#18 THE GAYETY OF LIFE, Compromises

18. Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worth while to call one another’s attention to their presence.

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Unsourced Agnes Repplier Quotes

1. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.