Genial Quotes

40 quotes by 34 authors

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. — Thomas Gray
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome… — James Thomas Fields
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. — Henry Ward Beecher
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live… — Brooks Atkinson
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a… — Walter Bagehot
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw… — Basil W. Maturin
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. — William Wordsworth
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of… — Margaret Fuller
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make… — Winston Churchill
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose… — Henry Ward Beecher
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1)… — Thomas Armstrong
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of… — Harriet Martineau
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's… — Maurice Chevalier
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with… — Henry James
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned… — Kate Millett
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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