Agreeable Quotes

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I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and… — John Dalton
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. — Elia Kazan
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. — Conrad Black
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live… — Peter Ackroyd
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the… — Henry Ward Beecher
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to… — Seneca the Younger
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. — James Russell Lowell
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties… — Thomas Jefferson
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an… — Laurence Sterne
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. — Abraham Cowley
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable… — Pierre Alechinsky
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler

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