#agreeable

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ↗

— William Hague

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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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