Quotes About Amiability

People say they get a warmness from me.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Generalmente, es mejor caer en gracia que ser gracioso.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Waleran was suddenly brusque again, and the contrast with his previous manner made Philip realize that his amiability could be put on and taken off like a coat.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability... It shall be as you please, Mrs. Chester. I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like.

His grandson wrote that Hamilton's personality was "a mixture of aggressive force and infinite tenderness and amiability.

You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell's intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering.

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

I have met Tom Hanks. Several times. And he's been very nice.

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient. The natural state of a reflective man is one of depression. The world is a botch. Women can make men perfectly happy, but they seldom know how to do it. They make too much effort: they overlook the powerful effect of simple amiability. Women are also the cause of the worst kind of unhappiness.

My dear Miss Bridgerton," he said, wiping his eyes, "if you are the soul of kindness and amiability, then the world must be a very dangerous place.

if you are the soul of kindness and amiability, then the world must be a very dangerous place.

For who can remain angry with Mr Segundus? I dare say there are people in the world who are able to resent goodness and amiability, whose spirits are irritated by gentleness- but I am glad to say that Jonathan Strange was not of their number.

Me? Never in life!' said Smith, giving them his familiar beam of amiability: only now with a ragged carelessness, a desultory approximation, like a man who briefly raises a mask on a stick to his face but cannot be bothered to line up the eye holes. Septimus and Hendrick glanced at each other involuntarily, to share the dismay that each for different reasons was feeling.

She was, moreover, mistress of a very pretty little fortune, and was accounted clever without detriment to her amiability and amiable without detriment to her wit.