Top 403 Agreeable Quotes & Sayings

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

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

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

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

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

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

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

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

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

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

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Like the kind of voter who has been turned off to [Donald] Trump, who would normally vote Republican in an election like this, that`s who we`re talking about, can they get past - even if he comes to a position that`s more agreeable for them, a tone that`s more agreeable, can they get past the last year?

Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out.” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even.” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded.” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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

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

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

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

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.

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

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

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

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.