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Quotes About Congeniality

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Keep about the body congenial companionship, or make self express congeniality in whatever environ or sphere of activity the period may carry the body.
~ Edgar Cayce
I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
~ John Ortberg
Buddy me decía que estaba leyendo poemas escritos por alguien que también era médico y que había descubierto que había un famoso cuentista ruso, ya muerto, que también había sido médico, así que era posible que los escritores y los médicos congeniaran.
~ Sylvia Plath
If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.
~ Tess Gerritsen
the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.
~ Herman Melville
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.
~ Judith Martin
Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
~ Kitty Kelley
Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction.
~ Thornton Wilder
The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.
~ Brian Reynolds