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Agreeable Quotes (page 2)

I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all. Jane Austen
Was it my fault, that, whilst the peculiar charms of her sister afforded me an agreeable entertainment, a passion for me was engendered in her feeble heart? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. Francis Bacon
Jane Austen quote: "Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters..."
Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. Jane Austen
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand quote: "To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many..."
To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish. An agreeable place to dine; a cosmopolitan village tucked away behind Piccadilly with its own mysterious village life, one of the best shopping centres for food in London, the nastiest and most sordid nursery of crime in Europe. Even the travel journalists, obsessed by its ambiguities, can't make up their minds. P. D. James
Henry James quote: "What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of..."
What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self? Henry James
Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the... Leo Tolstoy
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. J. R. R. Tolkien
They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned."That can be his Indian name," I suggested. James Patterson
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity."Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad. Richard Russo
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian. George Eliot
Jane Austen quote: "All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes."
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. Jane Austen
Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years! Ralph Waldo Emerson

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