Agnes Repplier Quotes about Laughter

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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!

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!

Agnes Repplier

Laughter, Dust, Laughing

Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

Agnes Repplier

Cheer, Laughter, Memories

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter, Spring, Heart

Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter, Serious, Reason

Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”