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Quotes About Genial

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
somehow or other, there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence. Your
~ Washington Irving
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
MacDuff I knew at Cambridge." "Oh, you did, did you? Describe him." "Tall. Tall and absurdly thin. And good-natured. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like. A sort of pleasant genial mantis that's given up preying and taken up tennis instead.
~ Douglas Adams
Why was it, Corvus wondered, as he stood before the august presence with a genial smile sculpted on his face, that one always whispered in the presence of kings and cretins?
~ Douglas Preston
Brett Kavanaugh was a very difficult Supreme Court nominee for liberals to oppose. He had a stellar reputation, an impeccable record, and a genial disposition.
~ Mollie Hemingway
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
~ Walter Scott
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!
~ John Armstrong
I never met a man that I didn't like.
~ Will Rogers
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
~ Edith Wharton
sin este sentir trágico y humorístico que me hace ser, ante los otros, un personaje genial o un horror erguido en dos piernas nada fácil de aguantar.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.
~ Woodrow Wilson
they're both nice . . . kind of.
~ Andrew Clements
He is affable to the point of cordiality.
~ Ron Chernow
I think I'm a pretty nice fella.
~ Antonin Scalia
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
~ Emma Willard
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
~ Robertson Davies
AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.
~ Lois Lowry
A great nose indicates a great man—Genial, courteous, intellectual,Virile, courageous.
~ Edmond Rostand
I am very friendly and affable.
~ Arbaaz Khan
Canadians are often a friendly bunch.
~ Henry Rollins
I try to be friendly to everyone.
~ Spencer Matthews