Agreeable Quotes

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. (Walter Bagehot)
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. View quote
Jane Austen
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. View quote
George Eliot
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. View quote
Joseph Addison
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. View quote
Jane Austen
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. View quote
Winston Churchill
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. View quote
Pythagoras
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
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)
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. View quote
Duke Ellington
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. View quote
Kin Hubbard
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you. View quote
Rebecca West
Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians. View quote
Sarah Grimké
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II