Quotes by Agnes Repplier

The following are quotes from Agnes Repplier:

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

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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.

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

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

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

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