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 great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not… — Agnes Repplier Book 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
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as… — Agnes Repplier Command 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
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. — Agnes Repplier Characteristics 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
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
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
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates… — Agnes Repplier Anticipate 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
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Civilization 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
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated… — Agnes Repplier Add Copy Share Image
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. — Agnes Repplier Adam Copy Share Image
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
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction… — Agnes Repplier Behave 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
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from… — Agnes Repplier Candor 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 Facts Copy Share Image
