black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIER

Capable Proof Thing
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
AGNES REPPLIER

Art Best Compatible Humour Life Told Worst
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
AGNES REPPLIER

Buoyant Collapsing Satisfaction Self Sunshine Trick Ugly
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIER

Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER

Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
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

Attractive Bloodhound Charming Erudition Knowledge Learning Leash
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
AGNES REPPLIER

Dear Direction Heart One Petty Practical Scrimp
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
AGNES REPPLIER

Comfortable History Hopefully Inclines Study Thinking Time
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIER

Day Delight Diaries Happy Journal Men Wrote
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
AGNES REPPLIER

Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIER

No Temptation Virtue
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
AGNES REPPLIER

Accommodate Fact History May Surprised Tramleled
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
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 party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
AGNES REPPLIER

Animosity Graft Greed Incapacity Nothing Party Political

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes