The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
AGNES REPPLIERSensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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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.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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