Agnes Repplier Quotes - Page 2

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• Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  Agnes Repplier

  Knowledge, Learning, Charming

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

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• Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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  Friendship, Dog, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

  Agnes Repplier

  Shopping, Essentials, World

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• For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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  Reading, Character, Incidents

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Choices, Support, Essentials

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Tea, Sound

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• There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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  Law, Optimism, Triumph

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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  Funny, Women, Humor

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

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• For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

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  Thinking, Shifting, Comedy

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Light, Landscape

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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  Dog, Real, Suffering

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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  Happiness, Joy, Grace

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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  Speech, Phrases, Accepted

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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  Healing, Political, Doubt

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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  Dog, Common Sense, Pet

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

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  Two, Punctuation Marks, Eight

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• Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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  Love Is, Patient, Common

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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  Positive, Sarcastic, Attitude

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

  Agnes Repplier

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• 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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Personality, Twenties

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• To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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  Wise, Fate, Brave

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

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  Men, Feminist, Suffering

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

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