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Quotes About Agreeable

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.
~ Isabella Bird
she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.
~ Peter Lovesey
I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.
~ Allison Tolman
I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
~ Sam Neill
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
~ Arnold Bennett
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
~ Adam Grant
I made the mistake of being too agreeable and catering to every need of my man.
~ Reham Khan
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
~ Jonathan Swift
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
~ James Joyce
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
~ Francoise Sagan
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
~ William Hazlitt
I like what is joyous and agreeable," he ejaculated, "I hate what is disagreeable and melancholy.
~ David Cecil
Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
~ La Rochefoucauld
I never met a man that I didn't like.
~ Will Rogers
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
~ Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
~ Jane Austen
Make sure your host knows that you are not high maintenance, and that you'll fit into any schedule that is planned.
~ Tinsley Mortimer
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.
~ Roy Nelson
I don't have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I'm collaborative.
~ Brian France
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.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
~ Tacitus