Agreeableness Quotes

• A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Inspiration, Men, Awakening

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Wisdom, Sarcasm

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Lothair”

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• 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

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Symmetry

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• Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Vanity, Medicine, Poison

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• We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Air, Secret

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