Aamir and Kiran Rao are a very nice, gentle and amiable…

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…

— Matthew Arnold

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point…

— Stevie Smith

Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with…

— Maureen Dowd

Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not,…

— Regina Maria Roche

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do,…

— Eliza Haywood

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their…

— Cyril Connolly

The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such…

— John Owen

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust…

— Jane Austen

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The…

— Geoffrey Fisher

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Barbara Holland

“However amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.”

— Jane Austen

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

— David Riesman

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive…

— Immanuel Kant