Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

— Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

— Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

— Agnes Repplier

Friendship takes time.

— Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

— Agnes Repplier

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

— Agnes Repplier

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

— Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

— Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

— Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

— Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

— Agnes Repplier

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

— Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

— Agnes Repplier

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

— Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

— Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit…

— Agnes Repplier

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases…

— Agnes Repplier

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands…

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Agnes Repplier

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

— Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and…

— Agnes Repplier

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

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change…

— Agnes Repplier

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts…

— Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds…

— Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will…

— Agnes Repplier

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate…

— Agnes Repplier

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

— Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

— Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

— Agnes Repplier