Agreeable Quotes

227 quotes by 177 authors

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us… — Harold Nicolson
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets â€“ that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on… — David Hume
I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate and selfish use… — Thomas Hodgskin
I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower… — Robert E. Lee
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and… — Frances Perkins
The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in… — John Mortimer
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. Â The biggest barrier toÂ equality for… — Philip Gulley
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. — George Washington
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life — Julia Child
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,… — Friedrich Accum
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only… — James Goldsmith
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. — Kin Hubbard
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable?… — Johann Most
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. — Isabelle Adjani
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to… — George Washington
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… — Thomas Paine
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. — Arnold Bennett

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