The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. — Agnes Repplier Lost 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 friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier Built Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Artificial Copy Share Image
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into… — Agnes Repplier Chosen Copy Share Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier Art Copy Share Image
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom… — Agnes Repplier Amount Copy Share Image
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn. — Agnes Repplier Busy 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
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier Common Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Accepting 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
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Accepted 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
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain… — Agnes Repplier Barefoot 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
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly… — Agnes Repplier Accommodate Copy Share Image
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding… — Agnes Repplier Always trying Copy Share Image
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it… — Agnes Repplier Characteristics Copy Share Image
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment. — Agnes Repplier Admonish Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Comfortable Copy Share Image
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Century 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
