34 ordspråk av Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier föddes den April 1st 1858 och dog den 15 December 1950 - US writer
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 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. |
| 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. |
| Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about |
| Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. |
| Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. |
| Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt |
| Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
| Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
| Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
| In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. |
| It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. |
| It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. |
| It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. |
| It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. |
| 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. |
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