Agreeable
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Willing; ready to agree or consent.
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
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Agreeable Quotations
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
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Agreeable Translations
agreeable in Afrikaans is heerlik, aangenaam, lekker
agreeable in Danish is behagelig
agreeable in Dutch is aangenaam, behaaglijk, genoeglijk
agreeable in German is angenehm
agreeable in Latin is facilis, iucundus, dulcis, acceptus
agreeable in Spanish is conforme, grato, agradable
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