Agreeable Nature Quotes

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

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.