Agnes Repplier Quotes (10 quotations)

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

2. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. - Agnes Repplier

3. It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. - Agnes Repplier

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

5. The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. - Agnes Repplier

6. There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier

7. There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. - Agnes Repplier

8. There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. - Agnes Repplier

9. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier

10. 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

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