Agreeable Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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.

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.