Agreeable Quotes

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

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 each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

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 makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

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 to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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 enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.