When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Draught Copy Share Image
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. — Agnes Repplier Characteristics Copy Share Image
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier Historian Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Character Copy Share Image
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... — Agnes Repplier Enjoyable Copy Share Image
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle. — Agnes Repplier Hands Copy Share Image
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose… — Agnes Repplier Boredom Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Civilization 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… — Agnes Repplier Absurdities Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Admire Copy Share Image
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier Appetite Copy Share Image
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings… — Agnes Repplier Belief Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Creeds Copy Share Image
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to… — Agnes Repplier Break Copy Share Image
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life.… — Agnes Repplier Burden Copy Share Image
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking… — Agnes Repplier Complaining Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of… — Agnes Repplier Banish Copy Share Image
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers,… — Agnes Repplier Cat 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… — Agnes Repplier Caress Copy Share Image
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into… — Agnes Repplier Action Copy Share Image
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that… — Agnes Repplier Attention 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
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
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
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier Forever Copy Share Image
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. — Agnes Repplier Beggar Copy Share Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Deals Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. — Agnes Repplier Envy Copy Share Image
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. — Agnes Repplier Committed Copy Share Image
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier Funny Copy Share Image
