Agnes Repplier

Friendship takes time.

— Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

— Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

— Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

— Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Agnes Repplier

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

— Agnes Repplier

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

— Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

— Agnes Repplier

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

— Agnes Repplier

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Agnes Repplier

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

— Agnes Repplier

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who…

— Agnes Repplier

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling…

— Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

— Agnes Repplier

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from…

— Agnes Repplier

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral…

— Agnes Repplier

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs…

— Agnes Repplier

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being…

— Agnes Repplier

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

— Agnes Repplier

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to…

— Agnes Repplier

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited…

— Agnes Repplier

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new…

— Agnes Repplier

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It…

— Agnes Repplier

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse…

— Agnes Repplier

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that…

— Agnes Repplier

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of…

— Agnes Repplier

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are…

— Agnes Repplier

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating…

— Agnes Repplier

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,…

— Agnes Repplier

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good…

— Agnes Repplier

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,…

— Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron…

— Agnes Repplier

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen…

— Agnes Repplier

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who…

— Agnes Repplier

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,…

— Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

— Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Agnes Repplier