black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Agnes Repplier

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
AGNES REPPLIER

Choices Want Ought Ourselves Persuade Thing Trouble Wanted
Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
AGNES REPPLIER

Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
AGNES REPPLIER

Adult Boisterous Cat Children Exert Liking Scant Society
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Guardian Mirth Right Thinker World
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
AGNES REPPLIER

Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIER

Busy Complain Inspirational Lost Memorable Now Tourist
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women
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
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
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
AGNES REPPLIER

Appreciate Discrimination Enjoy Equal Frightful Literature Masterpiece Read Something
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIER

Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
AGNES REPPLIER

Captured Hundred Letter Octopus scape Writer Years
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
AGNES REPPLIER

Barefoot Believe Boy Country Deal Girl Life Sentiment Vast
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIER

Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable Fall Life Modern Publication Stress

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes