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
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier Laughing Copy Share Image
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler. — Agnes Repplier Travel 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
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Analytics Copy Share Image
the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict.… — Agnes Repplier Actors Copy Share Image
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Agnes Repplier Adopted Copy Share Image
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier Faith Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Character Copy Share Image
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at… — Agnes Repplier Agility Copy Share Image
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is… — Agnes Repplier Animosity 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
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier Activity 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
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle. — Agnes Repplier Hands 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
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and… — Agnes Repplier Goodness 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
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Constructs Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Civilization Copy Share Image
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier Humor Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept… — Agnes Repplier Accepting Copy Share Image