Quotes About Agreeable

Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How

Bennet's emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!

I don't believe I'll be in the new 'Arrested Development' unless they ask me, in which case, okay! That's how easy I am to get.

Inasmuch as the scene of this story is that historic pile, Belpher Castle, in the county of Hampshire, it would be an agreeable task to open it with a leisurely description of the place, followed by some notes on the history of the Earls of Marshmoreton, who have owned it since the fifteenth century.

6. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticize not at all, nor find fault with anything and not try to regulate nor improve anyone. 7. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime.

Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

What is more numerous than the grass? The thoughts that rise in the mind of man. Who is truly wealthy? That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe, past and future, are the same. What is the most wondrous thing on earth? Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones left behind continue to live as though they were immortal.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

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

One of my strengths as a person is, I'm very easy-going.

I'm outgoing and friendly and usually get along with everybody.

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.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

I'm not hard to get along with.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early years of his retirement, with wonderful opportunities for golf.

Miracle is agreeable because … it satisfies the wishes of man without labour[.]

He was a nice guy, such a good person, easy to get along with and friendly with everyone.

David Lean is very, very easy to get on with.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

Beauty is no advantage to a man. The being agreeable is an immense one.

pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.

Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.

Being agreeable' is the highest duty of any human being mingling with other people….Practicing good manners should be as natural as displaying the teeth").