Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
tolerance ironic events
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
actors littles court
the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
voice storytelling infancy
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
travel children thinking
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
travel mind desire
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
positive sarcastic attitude
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
uplifting country cities
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
sunshine self ugly
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
loss ill-health anxiety
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.
men hands desire
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
art life-is humour
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
laughter memories cheer
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
littles ethics common
Economics and ethics have little in common.