#agreeable

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#compliant #i #neither #nor #small

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#become #competitive #disagreeable #encouraged #many

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#celestial #delicious #how #laughing #more

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#exciting #freedom #night #profound

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.

#enemies #friendship #friendship

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

#attention #body #calls #criticism #fulfils

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

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

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

#always #best #greatest #live #most

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#busy #curious #enthusiastic #i #state

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