Agreeable Quotes

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot

Greatest, Trying, Mistake

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

Optimism, Used, Pessimism

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

Nor, Burden, Pen

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

Busy, State, Curious

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylor

Life, Peace, Nothing

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Conrad Black

Loyalty, Anyone, Company

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

Society, Wish, Taught

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Warren Zevon

Business, Wish, Active

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time, Courage, Everything

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dreams, Once, Fantastic

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.
Marcus V. Pollio

Between, Whole, Result

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Bob Ehrlich

Political, Different, Thoughtful

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish

Children, Law, Young

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

Beauty, Woman, Young

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
Johann Most

Freedom, Care, Control

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.
Nicolas Malebranche

Faith, Experience, Feelings

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.
Alistair Cooke

Feeling, Country, America

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell

Friend, May, Himself

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
Carmen Laforet

Freedom, Night, Exciting

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