Top 142 Amiable Quotes & Sayings

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

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.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

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 in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

Virtue is not always amiable.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.