black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Languid Length Sky Sleep Stretch Sweetly
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
AGNES REPPLIER

Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
AGNES REPPLIER

Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIER

Capable Proof Thing
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
AGNES REPPLIER

Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIER

Delusion Foolish Past Present Sane Subtle
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIER

Character Good Incident Novel Part Reading
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
AGNES REPPLIER

Adam Conversation Difficult Nobody Talk Time
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
AGNES REPPLIER

Frightful Goodness Law Masterpiece Men Pressure REquired Strong
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
AGNES REPPLIER

Apart Ask Asking Favor Granting Invention Many Way
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Custom Pledge Universality Worth
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER

Anybody Laugh Laughing Love Really Said Wisely
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
AGNES REPPLIER

Age Middle Pain Plodded Regret Shoulder Vanished Year
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
AGNES REPPLIER

Candor Conscious Glasses Outlook Reading Tale Unconscious Vision

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes