Top 100 Agreeable Quotes
#1. In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound
and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
Winston Churchill
#2. A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.
Immanuel Kant
#3. I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
Isabelle Adjani
#4. 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
#5. Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.
David Hume
#6. There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Plato
#7. How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind - impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
George Eliot
#8. Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
Julia Child
#9. Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
Edward Bellamy
#10. Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
David Hume
#11. You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
Arnold Bennett
#12. Kissing me won't make me more agreeable," she whispered.
"I'm not trying to make you more agreeable." His voice was rough and low. "I just can't help myself.
Ilona Andrews
#13. I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.
Lauren Collins
#14. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#15. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
Jane Austen
#17. The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
Seneca The Younger
#18. To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
Joseph Joubert
#19. Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.
Charlie Munger
#20. He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. 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
#22. What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
E.W. Howe
#25. There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.
Laurie Colwin
#26. I don't know that you would ever like him, or think him agreeable, Margaret. He is not a lady's man.' Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#27. To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Lord Chesterfield
#28. A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
#29. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
Jonathan Franzen
#30. A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
#31. That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
Jane Austen
#32. Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.
Adam Grant
#33. Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
Jonathan Edwards
#34. Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#35. It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
Bayard Taylor
#36. Delightful and sensitive boys have a habit of growing into insensitive and far-from-agreeable men.
P.D. James
#37. Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.
Isabella Bird
#38. Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
J.C. Ryle
#39. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
#40. I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
Peter Ackroyd
#41. The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.
James Joyce
#43. It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.
Winston Churchill
#44. There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A.J.P. Taylor
#45. The books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.
Herman Melville
#46. An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Jane Austen
#47. As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.
Remy De Gourmont
#48. Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.
Jane Austen
#49. Pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
Francoise Sagan
#50. If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.
Voltaire
#51. A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#52. Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
Ammon Shea
#53. There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
#54. I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.
Michel Ocelot
#55. What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
Honore De Balzac
#56. A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
Adoniram Judson
#57. Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
James Goldsmith
#58. 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.
Vitruvius
#59. Although a companion is agreeable, perfect freedom is sometimes still more agreeable. I
Alexandre Dumas
#60. Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
Saint Francis De Sales
#61. A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Kin Hubbard
#62. How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.
W. Somerset Maugham
#63. Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#64. My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Mary Shelley
#66. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.
Jane Austen
#67. The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
Stella Adler
#68. Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
Oliver Goldsmith
#69. A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, "I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the courtesy which is due from one gentlemen to another, and try to do everything in my power to make his stay agreeable.
Clint Johnson
#70. The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
James Joyce
#71. Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Emily Blackwell
#73. There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.
P.D. James
#74. Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How
Jane Austen
#75. I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.
Bruno Zheng Wu
#76. No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
David Hume
#77. In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#78. Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.
Rose Macaulay
#79. I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington
#80. A wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
Jonathan Swift
#82. What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
Henry James
#83. Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
Iain Benson
#84. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
#85. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...
H.L. Mencken
#86. Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
James Boswell
#87. Indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
George Eliot
#88. Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.
Charles Dickens
#91. For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.
Ismail Kadare
#92. The visit promised to be more honorable than agreeable, and Maggie almost wished herself at home again.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#93. To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
Mason Cooley
#94. You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished.
Fanny Burney
#95. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.
Plato
#96. Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
Agnes Repplier
#97. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph Addison
#98. The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais
#99. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
Anonymous
#100. There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
