If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. — John Muir Copy Share Image
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image