Quotes from Agnes Repplier

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

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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!

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

Friendship takes time.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.