"The reason why so few people are agreeable……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"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 saying."
More Agreeable Quotes
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great… — Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — Seneca the Younger
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more… — Joseph Addison