agreeable-mannered

Updated: May 3, 2025

The portrait presented by contemporary mention and his own intentional and unintentional admissions, is of an active-minded and agreeable-mannered man, a hard worker, very markedly prone to quips and whimsical sayings and plays upon words, and aware of a double reputation as a man of erudition and a wit.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World