black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Agnes Repplier

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
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
AGNES REPPLIER

Age Middle Pain Plodded Regret Shoulder Vanished Year
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
AGNES REPPLIER

Element Embody Essence Humor Mind Surprise Unexpected
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIER

Enjoyable Induce Music People Thorough Truthful World
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Custom Pledge Universality Worth
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
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
AGNES REPPLIER

Education Language Liberal
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Distance Dog Intelligent Seek Strive Thought Translate
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
AGNES REPPLIER

Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIER

Busy Complain Inspirational Lost Memorable Now Tourist
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIER

Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
Friendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIER

Friendship Take Time
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIER

Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
AGNES REPPLIER

Biblical Gray Old Ought Outlook Seventy Sunshine Uncompromising Weighted Year
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
AGNES REPPLIER

Absurdity Apprehension Elude Foundation Giving Largely Pleasure Reason

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Repplier Quotes