Amiable Quotes

Amiable Quote of the day

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

Virtue is not always amiable.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.