Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Agnes Repplier Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
The tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
It is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.