Agreeable Quotes

227 quotes by 177 authors

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language… — Bayard Taylor
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable. — John Mortimer
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with… — George Bernard Shaw
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but… — John Kenneth Galbraith
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. — Henry Van Dyke
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. — Kin Hubbard
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when… — Aldous Huxley
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. — Immanuel Kant
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed… — Hugh Laurie
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that… — Bill Maher
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. — Blaise Pascal
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. — Petrarch
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! — Francois Rabelais

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