Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
peace world force
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
men diaries delight
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
funny patience humor
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
sleep cat sky
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.
conversation adam difficult
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
envy purpose good-work
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
change innovation delight
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
girl country believe
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
men feminist suffering
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
dog heart cat
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.
travel mind desire
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
believe writing men
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
shopping world essentials
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
funny women humor
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.