Quotes by Agnes Repplier

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

#Happiness

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

#Humor

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

#Laughter

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

#Humor

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and...

#Optimism

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past...

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.