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Quotes About Amiability

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~ It cost nothing to be nice.
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
~ William Feather
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Jane Lynch is the nicest person I've ever worked with.
~ Josie Totah
Sigourney Weaver was one of the nicest lady actors I have ever met. So friendly about everything.
~ Jeremy Howard
I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
~ Jane Austen
A dog without influence or private means, if he is to make his way in the world, must have either good looks or amiability.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Jack Aubrey pushed back his chair, loosened his waistcoat, and said, 'I had no idea I was so hungry: I am afraid I must have eaten like an ogre.' Killick could be seen to smile: Jack's appetite always pleased him - his one deviation into amiability. 'Oh come,' said Maturin. 'Six mutton chops is not at all excessive in a man of your weight: an abstemious ogre would call it moderation.
~ Patrick O'Brian
There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.
~ John Barth
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
~ Sam Walton
Rather, she feared her distress had its roots in the unexpected amiability of the enterprise, the sense of camaraderie that had sprung up between them as they sat quietly by the fire in her room discussing suspects in Mr. Otley's murder. In those moments, she'd felt known by the duke in a way she hadn't been by anyone else, and it made her sad and unsettled to realize how quickly he would cease to know her.
~ Unknown
He laughed lightly, but his eyes told another story. Ambury could smile ever so amiably while the daggers within his wit sliced one to shreds.
~ Madeline Hunter
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
~ William Feather
Or as Bill Buckley said in 1970, "I see it as the continuing challenge of National Review to argue the advantages to every one of the rediscovery of America, the amiability of its people, the flexibility of its institutions, of the great latitude that is still left to the individual, the delights of spontaneity, and, above all, the need for superordinating the private vision over the public vision.
~ Matthew Continetti
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
~ Michael Korda