Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
choices want trouble
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
confused years age
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
memorable complaining would-be
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
funny patience humor
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
inspiration intelligent men
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.
inspirational funny travel
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
cat rushing mad
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
humor essence mind
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
fashion drinking tea
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.
learning personality twelve
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.
men self fabric
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
men enjoy-life leisure
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
people literature letters
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
inspirational mind impossible
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.