black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Agnes Repplier

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
AGNES REPPLIER

Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIER

Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Children Helped Imagination Portion Read Really Scant Service Thinking Warm
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
AGNES REPPLIER

Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIER

Accurately Cat Dog Expresses Mater Men Mutual Relation Sense Tem Word
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER

Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
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
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
AGNES REPPLIER

Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
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
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
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
AGNES REPPLIER

Country Giving Language Like Million Probably Term Thinking Thousand Vocable
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIER

Beggar Begging Charity Elect Favor Forfeited
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
AGNES REPPLIER

Analysis Choice Enjoyed Enthusiasm Essential Support Topic
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
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIER

Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
AGNES REPPLIER

Belief Loyalty Passionate Desire Reverse Unbounded Unshaken

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes