Agnes Repplier

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

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ”

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

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ”

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ”

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

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. ”

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

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ”