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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
— Henry James
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
— Alexander Pope
Some jokes are less agreeable than others
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
— Francoise Sagan
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
— Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Just know this isn't going to be easy. I'm not always going to agree with whatever you want." "If I wanted agreeable, I'd get a pet.
— Milly Taiden
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
— Kenneth Grahame
How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Custom determines what is agreeable.
— Blaise Pascal
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was
— Henry James
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.
— Edward Jesse
Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not.
— Publilius Syrus
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
— Agnes Repplier
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
— Horace
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant
— Immanuel Kant
It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.
— Michel Eugene Chevreul
Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
— Adoniram Judson
Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.
— Mark Kurlansky
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
— Walter Bagehot
Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
— George Bernard Shaw
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
— George Washington
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
— Seneca The Younger
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!
— Noel Coward
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
— Jane Austen
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
— Sir Fulke Greville
Indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
— George Eliot
I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.
— Bruno Zheng Wu
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
— Isabelle Adjani
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
— Henry James
There was no one as good as he at using the ovens of logic to bake agreeable results.
— William T. Vollmann
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
— Arthur Helps
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
— Jonathan Franzen
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
— Agnes Repplier
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Although a companion is agreeable, perfect freedom is sometimes still more agreeable. I
— Alexandre Dumas
Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person." "Dear Lizzy!
— Jane Austen
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
— Abraham Cowley
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
— Joseph Addison
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
— Epictetus
Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
— Kate DiCamillo
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
— Alec Baldwin
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
— Pythagoras
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
— Winston Churchill
Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.
— Frederick Lenz
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
— Winston Churchill
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
— Sherry Argov
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
— Victor Hugo
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
— Warren Zevon
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
— Conrad Black
If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
— Joyce Rachelle
A wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
— Jonathan Swift
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
— Mason Cooley
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
— Charles Baudelaire
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
— Thomas Jefferson
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
— Arnold Lobel
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
— Sarah Fielding
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
— A.J.P. Taylor
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
— Publilius Syrus
What is more agreeable than one's home?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.
— Charles Dickens
