Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
AGNES REPPLIEREverybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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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.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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