Agreeable Quotes

227 quotes by 177 authors

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but… — Alfred de Musset
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness. — Gail Godwin
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. — Plautus
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… — Isaac D'Israeli
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. — Jonathan Swift
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it. — A. S. Byatt
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. — Alexander Pope
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner
Custom determines what is agreeable. — Blaise Pascal
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without… — James Boswell
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David… — H.G. Wells
Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. — Frederick Lenz
If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is… — Frederick Lenz
If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause. — James Ussher

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