Quote

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

Agnes Repplier

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
Biographer
Essayist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Conversation
Clears
Another
Vistas
Nothing
Sympathetic
Good
Humour
Wit
Command
Mental
Intelligent

More quotes by Agnes Repplier

Image
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
Agnes Repplier
Image
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
Image
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
Agnes Repplier
Image
History is not written in the interests of morality.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
Agnes Repplier
Image
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Agnes Repplier
Image
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
Agnes Repplier
Image
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Agnes Repplier
Image
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
Agnes Repplier
Image
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
Agnes Repplier
Image
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
Agnes Repplier
Image
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
Agnes Repplier
Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Agnes Repplier
Image
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
Agnes Repplier
Image
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
Image
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier