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
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful,… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
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
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
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler 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
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison 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
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly,… — Stephen Leacock 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
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
