Agreeable Quotes

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.
Winston Churchill

Pain, Human, May

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

Power, Give, Receive

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

Victory, Problems, Difficult

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

Friends, Ask, Questions

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Everything, Before, Soul

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.
Bill Maher

Politics, Time, Freedom

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

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.
Jane Austen

Woman, May, Done

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas

Friendship, Greatest, Friends

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

Life, Choose, Useful

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Another, Misery

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

Great, Trouble, Deal

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Saying, Thinking, Why

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

Hope, End, Lives

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

Everything, May, Cold

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

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.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Place, Problems, Ourselves

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing, Reason, Divine

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

Life, Few, Known

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

Best, Live, Greatest

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 - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Passion, Doubt

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

Men, Melancholy, Thrown

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.
Xenophon

Strong, Beer, Used

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, God, Soul

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

Life, Few, Known

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

Wine, Laughing, Oh

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

Bad, Goes, Fame

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.
Hugh Laurie

Life, Hope, Children

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
Elia Kazan

Small, Nor, Neither

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