Agnes Repplier Quotes, Sunday Quotes

Necessity knows no Sunday.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Sunday Quotes

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Education Quotes , Language Quotes

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , People Quotes , Letters Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Years Quotes , Example Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Joy Quotes

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Appreciate Quotes , Literature Quotes

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Men Quotes , Diaries Quotes

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Youth Quotes , Tenacity Quotes

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Guests Quotes , Leisure Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Travel Quotes , Light Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Art Quotes , Life Is Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Drinking Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Dog Quotes

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Joy Quotes , Criticism Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Patient Quotes

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Dream Quotes , Appreciation Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Dog Quotes , Common Sense Quotes

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Taken Quotes , Cinema Quotes

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Always Trying Quotes

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes