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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

The sense of success -the most agreeable emotion of the human heart — Henry James

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

If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new. — Voltaire

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. — Isabelle Adjani

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. — David Hume

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace

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

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. — Tacitus

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

Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How — Jane Austen

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound
and everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. — Mark Twain

Not sure, but I tell her that it does because I'm Midwestern and agreeable. She — Matthew Norman

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. — Abraham Cowley

The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable. — Adam Smith

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

That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ... — Marcel Proust

It's a tiresome matter to go to bed without supper; it is still less agreeable to have no supper and not to know where to find a bed. — Victor Hugo

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

Love isn't always agreeable, it's not easy and it's not certain. — Auliq Ice

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

So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and some of us are too agreeable for words. Most of us, really. — Jincy Willett

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. — Mason Cooley

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. — Plautus

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

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life — Julia Child

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

All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct. — Thorne Smith

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments. — Benjamin Thompson

He remounted. "I will ride with you." With some effort, he gentled his voice. "If that would be agreeable to you."
"How kind of you. Thank you. — Carolyn Jewel