Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational men ideas
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
art may pleasure
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
kindness milk draught
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
church demand sides
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
pain fate men
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
taste enough bad-taste
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
sweetness-of-life people steps
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.
yield years stronger
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
perception world clear
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
sorry reality achievement
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
laughter spring heartless
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
travel dining complaining
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
loyalty passionate-desire belief
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.