black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Agnes Repplier

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
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIER

Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIER

Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIER

Know Necessity Sunday
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
AGNES REPPLIER

Book Heart Men Secret Wholesome Woman Written
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
AGNES REPPLIER

Advance Cat Dog Guided Heart Instinct Man Woman
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
AGNES REPPLIER

Failure Judgement Less May Measure
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
AGNES REPPLIER

Brave Fate Manhood Misfortune Wise
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIER

Harden Heart Humor Sanity
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIER

End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
AGNES REPPLIER

Followed Insubordination Rigidly Taught Teacher Too Much
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
AGNES REPPLIER

Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cities Community Distinctive Possess Quality
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
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
AGNES REPPLIER

Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
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
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
AGNES REPPLIER

Ascertained Discreet Drinking Emptiness General Hard Lying Men
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
AGNES REPPLIER

Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Kitten Mad Remarkable Rushing Stopping
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
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
AGNES REPPLIER

Choices Demand Education Enthusiasm Habitually Profound Reverence Teacher Unassailable
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
AGNES REPPLIER

Course Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable Vice
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
AGNES REPPLIER

Child Children Thinking Travel
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
AGNES REPPLIER

Adam Conversation Difficult Nobody Talk Time

real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes