Candor Quote by Agnes Repplier Download Open image “A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.” — Agnes Repplier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candor Disruptive Force Interest Peace Ubuntu Vested interest Vested interests World
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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“Nations are guided only by their own interests and have no obligation to other countries which did not conform to those interests.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier 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 agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
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Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image