The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIERIt has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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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.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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