Agnes Repplier Quotes

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.