Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process. — Agnes Repplier Bargaining Copy Share Image
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. — Agnes Repplier Dear Copy Share Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude… — Agnes Repplier Attitude Copy Share Image
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Be brave Copy Share Image
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that… — Agnes Repplier Collapsing Copy Share Image
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. — Agnes Repplier Cats Copy Share Image
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier Admonish Copy Share Image
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier Candor Copy Share Image
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher… — Agnes Repplier Choices Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Comedy 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
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we… — Agnes Repplier Amenities Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Alcoholism Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls… — Agnes Repplier Charm Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier All time 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
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been… — Agnes Repplier Cinema Copy Share Image
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit… — Agnes Repplier Asking Copy Share Image
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. — Agnes Repplier Easy Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Begging Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases… — Agnes Repplier Believe Copy Share Image
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. — Agnes Repplier Domesticity Copy Share Image
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier Delusion Copy Share Image
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the… — Agnes Repplier Education 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… — Agnes Repplier Giving Copy Share Image
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Art 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Books 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
