The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier Funny Copy Share Image
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. — Agnes Repplier Committed Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier Jokes Copy Share Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. — Agnes Repplier Envy Copy Share Image
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler. — Agnes Repplier Travel Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more… — Agnes Repplier Giving Copy Share Image
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the… — Agnes Repplier Education Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Art Copy Share Image
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier Deeper Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases… — Agnes Repplier Believe Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Begging Copy Share Image
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. — Agnes Repplier Easy Copy Share Image
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit… — Agnes Repplier Asking Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Fancy Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Acquire Copy Share Image
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts… — Agnes Repplier Communication Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Assurance Copy Share Image
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept… — Agnes Repplier Accepting Copy Share Image
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and… — Agnes Repplier Cheer Copy Share Image
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things… — Agnes Repplier Discussion Copy Share Image
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind… — Agnes Repplier Contemplating Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Convincing Copy Share Image
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who… — Agnes Repplier Amused Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Benefits Copy Share Image
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good… — Agnes Repplier Apprehension Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Aversion Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Assuming Copy Share Image
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating… — Agnes Repplier Ale Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Cures Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier Laughing Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Given Copy Share Image
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