Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. — William Ellery Channing 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
“Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
“I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. Just don’t ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to… — Markus Zusak 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
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
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
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is… — William H. Coles 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
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding 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
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
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
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“However amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
