Agnes Repplier Quotes

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

In my case I want my films to be fresh even after a decade of watching it.

Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.