Words matter. These are the best Amiable Quotes from famous people such as Thomas Mann, Jane Austen, John Henry Newman, Benjamin Disraeli, William Ellery Channing, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
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.
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.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
I must have read every issue of ‘Punch’ published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour – that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like ‘Three Men in a Boat.’
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.
Her great merit is finding out mine – there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look – quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, ‘red in tooth and claw.’ That came about because people misread Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest.’
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.
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.
