Agnes Repplier Quotes

1858–1950 United States

Agnes Repplier (1 April 1858 – 15 December 1950) was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

A Plea for Humor (1891)

War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

Woman Enthroned (1920)

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the Earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Pursuit of Laughter (1936)

Parental legislation for the benefit of the weak leaves them as weak as ever ... They may go to heaven in leading-strings, but they cannot conquer Apollyon on the way.

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Lectures (1894)

[W]hy should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?

The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. ... [but] we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth.

The Cost of Modern Sentiment (1916)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Agnes Repplier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.