to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. — Agnes Repplier Education 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 Copy Share Image
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Burden Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that… — Agnes Repplier Attention Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Book Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours,… — Agnes Repplier 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
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers,… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into… — Agnes Repplier Action 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 Copy Share Image
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings… — Agnes Repplier Belief Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Creeds Copy Share Image
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to… — Agnes Repplier 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 Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier Appetite 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
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
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose… — Agnes Repplier Boredom Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Absurdities 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
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 English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. — Agnes Repplier 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 Copy Share Image
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible… — Agnes Repplier Art 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
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
