Agreeable Quotes
227 quotes by 171 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
— Henry James
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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
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence
— Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Its far better to be agreeable then right.
— Melchor Lim
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A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint.
— Ali Bassam
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Choose the GOOD WILL that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Marv Stark
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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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