Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
taste enough bad-taste
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
laughter dust laughing
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
heart one-direction dear
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
lying drinking men
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
book giving principles
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
dog cat men
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
office fiction novelists
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
rough-edges giving ease
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
asking favors way
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
friendship had-enough firsts
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
play groups fairness
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
thinking history study
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
heart home house
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.