Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
responsibility half asceticism
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
art facts doe
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
believe men grace
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
heart home house
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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.