Agnes Repplier Quotes

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

- Agnes Repplier

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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. - Agnes Repplier

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. - Agnes Repplier

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