Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose… — Agnes Repplier 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 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 Copy Share Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude… — Agnes Repplier Attitude 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 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 Copy Share Image
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a… — Agnes Repplier Blessing 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 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 Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier 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 Copy Share Image
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life.… — Agnes Repplier Burden 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
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Beauty Copy Share Image
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. — Agnes Repplier Cats 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 Copy Share Image
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in… — Agnes Repplier Giving 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
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier Faith 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 Copy Share Image
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier Depravity Copy Share Image
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller. — Agnes Repplier Infancy 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
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Absurdity 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 Actor 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 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
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Books Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier 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 Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Book Copy Share Image
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Alcoholism Copy Share Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Book 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 Copy Share Image
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its… — Agnes Repplier 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
