A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“However amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations. — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?" Danny: "Human nature," he said.… — Judith Victoria Douglas Copy Share Image
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image