Agreeable Quotes

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost… — Marquis de Sade
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as… — Ellen G. White
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her… — Jane Austen
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the… — Jane Austen
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world… — Jane Austen
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. — Jonathan Franzen
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated… — Primo Levi
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. — Jane Austen
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen
Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company… — Kate DiCamillo
Colin : â€œPerhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.â€ Sugar Beth : â€œWell, that sure does… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche
â€¦the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead,… — Leo Tolstoy
Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to… — Markus Zusak
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is… — Anne Bronte

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