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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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.
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
I made the mistake of being too agreeable and catering to every need of my man.
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
It is a dead heart.
It is inside of me.
It is a stranger
yet once it was agreeable,
opening and closing like a clam.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
