Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
world thorough enjoyable
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
men self fabric
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
memorable complaining would-be
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
inspirational funny travel
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
art life-is humour
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.
book giving principles
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
cat rushing mad
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
dog distance cat
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.
sweet hands order
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
stress fall mean
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
reality complacency looks
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
cities community quality
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
book heart intelligent
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.
charity favors begging
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.