Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Mum said that I shouldn't be moved to do anything by someone with sweet words, but Tommy Falk doesn't seem to be… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“John made himself agreeable to any girls who looked deserted or shy, and occasionally came over to see his mother. When he… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
“I believe, whoever sees the Grail will find it agreeable. It charms all those of this land, they find it pleasant and… — Robert de Boron Copy Share Image
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
