agreeable quotes

'My idea of an agreeable person,'said Hugo Bohun,'is a person who agrees with me.'

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Lothair, ch.35.

I know heisa devil, but hehassomethingoftheangel yet undefaced in him, which makes him so charming and agreeable that I must love him, be he never so wicked.

- Sir George Etherege
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Larry Doyle toTom Broadbent. John Bull's Other Island, act1.

Feware qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

-Jonathan Swift
  Thoughts onVarious Subjects (enlarged edn).