Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)

Quotes

• There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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

• We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

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

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

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