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Agreeable Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
- Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all…
- 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…
- Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
- 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…
- 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…
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
More Agreeable Quotes
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls… — Winston Churchill
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. — Winston Churchill
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill
- Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
- The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. — Seneca the Younger
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison