Quotations about

Agreement

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

—Charles Baudelaire

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

—Walter Bagehot

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

—Benjamin Disraeli

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

—William Wrigley Jr.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

—Michael Crichton

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

—Jane Austen

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

—Cullen Hightower

Your very silence shows you agree.

—Euripides

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

—Joseph Addison

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

—Marshall McLuhan

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

—Mo Udall

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

—Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

—Oscar Wilde