the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. — Agnes Repplier Charming Copy Share Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. — Agnes Repplier Envy 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
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 necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Burden Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Book Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Book Copy Share Image
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. — Agnes Repplier Common 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 earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller. — Agnes Repplier Infancy Copy Share Image
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. — Agnes Repplier Envy Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Appreciation Copy Share Image
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to… — Agnes Repplier Adults Copy Share Image
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients. — Agnes Repplier Common Copy Share Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Book Copy Share Image
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in… — Agnes Repplier Giving Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Compare Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. — Agnes Repplier Bad taste Copy Share Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Deals Copy Share Image
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women… — Agnes Repplier Century Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. — Agnes Repplier About Copy Share Image
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier Deeper 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
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
