The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. — Agnes Repplier Criticism Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier Comedy 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. — Agnes Repplier 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
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral… — Agnes Repplier Beloved Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Change 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 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 Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the… — Agnes Repplier 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
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of… — Agnes Repplier Candor Copy Share Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Character Copy Share Image
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier Comedy Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Human beings Copy Share Image
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs… — Agnes Repplier Animation Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Absurdity 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
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling… — Agnes Repplier Communication Copy Share Image
