Agreeable Quotes

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Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more… — Saint Francis de Sales
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share… — John James Audubon
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They… — Xenophon
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the… — Margaret Cavendish
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and… — Nicolas Malebranche
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. — William Wycherley
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence — Thomas Jefferson
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure — Aristotle
Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at… — George Meredith
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… — Adlai E. Stevenson
An agreeable opinion is accepted as true: this is the proof by pleasure (or, as the church says, the proof by strength), that all religions… — Michel De Montaigne
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. — Walter Bagehot
The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but… — Samuel Johnson
Its far better to be agreeable then right. — Melchor Lim
A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint. — Ali Bassam
Choose the GOOD WILL that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Marv Stark
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their… — Margaret Mead

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