Top 40 Agreeable Quotes

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

I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that’s all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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.

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.

I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

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

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

I found a great fishmonger in Southend, certainly not a place where I would have expected to find one, who specialises in skate knobs, a little nugget of meat from the head which makes for extremely agreeable eating.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They’re nice; they’re polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

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

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

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I’ve managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I’m in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

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

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

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

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

Everybody I’ve ever worked with – 99.9 percent of the time, I’ve had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

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.

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

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.

‘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.

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

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.

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

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.

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

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

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.