Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
strong giving tides
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
yield years stronger
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
strong men law
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
strong pain history
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.
strong home men
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.
strong writing careers
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
anybody cannot love whom
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
american-writer education receptive withhold
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
cannot irritation
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
anyone cannot love whom
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
american-writer chiefly generally gets kitten remarkable stopping
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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.