Quotes About Agreeable

All else in every direction was quiet, agreeable, timeless English countryside.

Agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was.

I want to be the kind of guy people will look at and say, 'Hey, he'd be a cool guy to have as a friend.'

the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.

Though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much.

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

Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult.

Nothing can be well learned that is not agreeable to one's natural taste.

How exactly have you managed to spend your entire career until now pretending to be a nice person?" (...) "It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead.

Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.

My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.

No one has any obligations to a concept; that is what is so agreeable about conceptuality—it promises protection from experience.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Listen. I can be whatever you want me to be. It's what I do. It's what I'm good at. Just remember that. You want me to be your best friend and fuck you? No problem. You want me to romance you, take you to dinner and shit? No problem.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

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

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

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!

We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

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

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.