Agreeable Quotes
227 quotes by 177 authors
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
— Jane Austen
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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…
— Jane Austen
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Francis Bacon
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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…
— Joseph Addison
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an…
— Winston Churchill
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
— Winston Churchill
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
— Winston Churchill
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Thomas Aquinas
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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
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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
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation…
— George Washington
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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
— Bob Ehrlich
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not…
— Lord Byron
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Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
— Jane Austen
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
— Horace
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