Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
irritation laughing secret
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
love laughing said
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
laughter dust laughing
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!
anybody cannot love whom
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
american-writer education receptive withhold
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
cannot irritation
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
anyone cannot love whom
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
american-writer chiefly generally gets kitten remarkable stopping
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
joy criticism next
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor fate effort
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
cat men vanity
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
cat circles secret
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
voice storytelling infancy
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.