We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having… — Matthew Arnold 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
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen 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
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal,… — Cyril Connolly 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
Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I… — Regina Maria Roche 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
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to… — Stevie Smith 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
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 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
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
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison 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
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
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
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
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
