Amiable Quotes

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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination… — Walter Scott
Amiable weaknesses of human nature. — Edward Gibbon
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than… — Stephen Fry
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably… — Charles Dickens
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for… — Jane Austen
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately. — Vincent de Paul
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. — Mary Astell
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever. — James Lileks
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion. — H. L. Mencken
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had… — Charles Perrault
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a… — Francois Fenelon
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, â€œOh… — Oswald Chambers
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw

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