black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
AGNES REPPLIER

Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
AGNES REPPLIER

Belief Feminist Man Severed Suffering
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
AGNES REPPLIER

Criticism Detractor Egoist Joy Next
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIER

Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Another Clear Conversation Humour Intelligent Metal Owe Vista
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
AGNES REPPLIER

Child Children Thinking Travel
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
AGNES REPPLIER

Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Giving More Natural Principle Publication Unreadable
Economics and ethics have little in common.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Economic Ethic Little
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
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
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Heart Men Secret Wholesome Woman Written
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
AGNES REPPLIER

Backward Giving Pacidity Soon Stagnation Stron Strong Tide

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes