Agnes Repplier Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

  Agnes Repplier

  Quality, Infinite, Wit

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

• Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simplicity, Quality, Enthusiasm

• 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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Drinking, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

• 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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Uplifting, Country, Cities

• No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cities, Community, Quality

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

• to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

  Agnes Repplier

  Kindness, Giving, Quality

  Agnes Repplier (1912). “Americans and Others”

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