Agreeable Quotes

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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
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
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
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
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
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
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. — Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
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
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
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
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. — Bob Ehrlich
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
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
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. — Jane Austen
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace

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