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I`m small, but I`m neither compliant nor agreeable.

- Elia Kazan

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

- Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

- Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

- Winston Churchill

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.

- Winston Churchill

Antonio is very focused, very well-prepared, he has thought about it a lot, read about it a lot. And he is a very agreeable sort of guy to work with.

- Bruce Beresford

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

- Johann Sebastian Bach

That`s my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

- Warren Zevon

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

- Jane Austen

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

- Alistair Cooke

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

- Marquis de Sade

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

- Adnan Pachachi

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

- African-American Proverb

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

- Ahmad Akkari

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

- Ahmed Bedier

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

- Alice Rossi

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

- Alice Schwarzer

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.

- Aly Byorick

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

- Amir Attaran

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

- Andrew Shao

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen

- Andy Goodenow

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Andy Sauer

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

- Joseph Addison

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

- Jane Austen

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

- George Eliot

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth

- Margaret Mead