Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
mind france habit
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
inspirational mind impossible
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
years example construction
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
lying book looks
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
race intelligence depravity
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.