Agreeable Quotes

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

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

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.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

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!

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

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.