This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
AGNES REPPLIERWoman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Friendship takes time.
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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.
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