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Quotes About Amiably

I give you a friendly warning. You think M. de Sevigny is drunk. He is not.' 'You might not think so,' said Lymond amiably. 'But in ten minutes or so, I am going to slip under the table and lie there.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word.
~ Larry Niven
Your birthday was the seventeenth of last month, in point of fact." "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important." "It's important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But Jeptha was so amiably stupid everybody was the smartest man he ever met. It was a worldwide tie.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.
~ Sarah Bird
Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.
~ Anthony Powell
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.
~ Artemus Ward
Archer there was room for him if he didn't mind sharing a table. "Works for me," Archer said amiably. He was led to a table that was nestled right next to the stage, where a man in his fifties sat.
~ David Baldacci