The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never…

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

— A. J. P. Taylor

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business.  But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide…

— Anthony Trollope

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right…

— Alexander Graham Bell

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

“…I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog…

— Plato

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity,…

— Anthony Trollope

“The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.”

— Elizabeth Bennett

“A sort of insatiability seems to infect our feelings when we look back on women, particularly on those who are highly interesting and yet…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

— H. L. Mencken

“Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and confident spirit,…

— Albert the Great

“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check to my…

— Jane Austen

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

— Henry Van Dyke