Everything agreeable to reason. [ Richelieu ]
Agreeable advice is rarely useful advice. [ Massillon ]
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. [ Rochefoucauld ]
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. [ Lowell ]
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. [ Cowley ]
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others. [ From the Latin ]
Happiness is a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion.
[ Quoted by Sterne ]
There is no more agreeable companion than the woman who loves us. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]
Nothing can be hostile to religion which is agreeable to justice. [ Gladstone ]
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. [ George Eliot ]
We are often more agreeable through our faults than through our good qualities. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It is a species of agreeable servitude, to be under an obligation to those we esteem. [ Queen Christina ]
Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. [ Goldsmith ]
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable. [ Pythagoras ]
Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]
Truth, justice and reason, lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied by agreeable manners. [ James Thomson ]
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. [ Thackeray ]
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. [ Wycherley ]
No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]
There is no such thing as being agreeable without a thorough good-humour, a natural sweetness of temper, enlivened by cheerfulness. [ Lady Montagu ]
Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Party or Person? Party, a collective noun, meaning a number of persons is often incorrectly used for person; as, He was a very agreeable party.
[ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. [ Hume ]
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]