Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
littles ethics common
Economics and ethics have little in common.
love-is common patient
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
common relation interest
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
dog common-sense puppy
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
joy criticism next
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor fate effort
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
cat men vanity
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
cat circles secret
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
voice storytelling infancy
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
talking people sacred
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
innovation committed illuminating
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
delight guests leisure
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.