Agnes Repplier Quotes

Most popular Agnes Repplier Quotes

The tea-hour is the hour of peace. - Agnes Repplier quote.
The tea-hour is the hour of peace.
— Agnes Repplier To Think of Tea!

tea

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
— Agnes Repplier Points of Friction

temptation

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
— Agnes Repplier Under Dispute

selfishness

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. - Agnes Repplier quote.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
— Agnes Repplier In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

dogs

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. - Agnes Repplier quote.
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
— Agnes Repplier Americans and Others

cats

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. - Agnes Repplier quote.
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
— Agnes Repplier To Think of Tea!

kindness

Humour distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Humour distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
— Agnes Repplier

humor gods

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier quote.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
— Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance.  Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.  Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
— Agnes Repplier In Pursuit of Laughter

irony

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. - Agnes Repplier quote.
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
— Agnes Repplier Under Dispute

misfortune

For there is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. - Agnes Repplier quote.
For there is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

cats

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
— Agnes Repplier Under Dispute

dogs

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. - Agnes Repplier quote.
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
— Agnes Repplier Books and Men

criticism

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. - Agnes Repplier quote.
It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

pleasure

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. - Agnes Repplier quote.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
— Agnes Repplier Times and Tendencies

education

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us.  It is the elation that comes of swift contact with the tingling currents of thought. - Agnes Repplier quote.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us.  It is the elation that comes of swift contact with the tingling currents of thought.
— Agnes Repplier Compromises

conversation

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle.  He suffers from a fatty degeneration of his moral being. - Agnes Repplier quote.
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle.  He suffers from a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
— Agnes Repplier Under Dispute

dogs

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable.  Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable.  Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate.

wit humor wit vs. humor

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
— Agnes Repplier Points of View
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one's attention to their presence. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one's attention to their presence.
— Agnes Repplier Compromises

misery

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! - Agnes Repplier quote.
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
— Agnes Repplier Points of View

laughter

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration.  The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas. - Agnes Repplier quote.
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration.  The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
— Agnes Repplier Compromises

listening

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the word, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.  But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat. - Agnes Repplier quote.
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the word, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.  But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

cats vs dogs

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
— Agnes Repplier

nature

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses. - Agnes Repplier quote.
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

cats vs dogs