Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, shehasnothing to do but die; and when shestoopsto be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. See Goldsmith 361:47.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.45.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Gama's song, Princess Ida, act1.

Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.