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

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Immanuel Kant

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

Elia Kazan

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

Winston Churchill

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

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

Francis Bacon

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Arnold Bennett

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

Adam Grant

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

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

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

Warren Zevon

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

Mary Shelley

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Kin Hubbard

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

A. J. P. Taylor

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

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

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

Henry James

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

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

'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.

George A. Moore

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

Francois Rabelais

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

Conrad Black

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

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

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Robert Burns

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

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

Jane Austen

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Carmen Laforet

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

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

Henry James

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

David Hume

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

James Boswell

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

Benjamin Disraeli

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

Walter Becker