We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Character Copy Share Image
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. — Agnes Repplier Beggar Copy Share Image
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier Forever Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Draught Copy Share Image
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients. — Agnes Repplier Common Copy Share Image
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident… — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. — Agnes Repplier Analysis Copy Share Image
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier Contrast Copy Share Image
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. — Agnes Repplier Ends 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
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and… — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate… — Agnes Repplier Acquire 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
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
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
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
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
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
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. — Agnes Repplier Characteristics Copy Share Image
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. — Agnes Repplier Charming Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. — Agnes Repplier Criticism Copy Share Image
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. — Agnes Repplier Lost Copy Share Image
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn. — Agnes Repplier Busy Copy Share Image
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier Animal Copy Share Image
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped… — Agnes Repplier Desire Copy Share Image
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates… — Agnes Repplier Optimism Copy Share Image
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. — Agnes Repplier Choices Copy Share Image
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their… — Agnes Repplier Kind Copy Share Image
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The… — Agnes Repplier Enough Copy Share Image
