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Quotes About Affability

I like being nice.
~ Mack Brown
People say they get a warmness from me.
~ Loni Love
In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
~ Zara Larsson
I try to be warm to everyone I meet.
~ Tom Bateman
almost everybody I met gave me, ungrudging, only affability. As long as things did not go any further, everyone put up a fine show. ... Shut off by a wall of affability, I was always completely alone.
~ K?b? Abe
Charlie's affable countenance stood in direct opposition to their mother's line. Her face, even with the bruises, was clearly still beautiful. She had always been so clever in the way that made people laugh rather than recoil. Relentlessly happy, Gamma had said. The kind of person people just like.
~ Karin Slaughter
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
~ Thomas More
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
~ William Shenstone
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
~ al-Baqir, Muhammad
She therefore prepared herself for friendliness.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Toad," she said presently, "just listen, please. I have an aunt who is a washerwoman." "There, there," said Toad, graciously and affably, "never mind; think no more about it. I have several aunts who ought to be washerwomen." "Do be quiet a minute, Toad," said the girl. "You talk too much, that's your chief fault, and I'm trying to think, and you hurt my head
~ Kenneth Grahame
friends easily and apparently kept them for years; it seems that virtually everyone he ever encountered liked him, unlikely as this seems. A skeptic might suspect that some of those friends were drawn to him by his generosity, which was legendary; he spread money around lavishly wherever he went. Many
~ Robert A. Carter
More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability? And as time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons. Robert Whittinton (1520) He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced. Jonathan Swift (1736)
~ Robert Bolt
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
~ L.M. Montgomery
polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity
~ Ron Chernow
April 1776, Benjamin Franklin expressed pleasure "with the ease and affability with which we were treated and the lively behaviour of the young ladies.
~ Ron Chernow
I suppose he smiled at Cody - he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad a gravity; a man for all seasons.
~ Robert Whittinton
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
~ Thomas Carlyle
You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
~ Vince Vaughn
As the starstruck Lafayette later described his first glimpse of Washington, It was impossible to mistake for a moment his majestic figure and deportment; nor was he less distinguished by the noble affability of his manner. What a sweet memory. Still, it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.
~ Sarah Vowell
If you want to live, it's good to be friendly.
~ Art Spiegelman
At present I still possess the same affability towards everybody, I am even full of consideration for the lowliest of people: in all this there is not a grain of arrogance or of secret contempt. He whom I despise soon guesses that he is despised by me: my mere existence is enough to rouse indignation in all those who have bad blood in their veins.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to be Caesar Plodding round Britain, [...] Freezing my nuts off in a Scythian midden Hadrian's matching riposte conveyed wit and affability and a side of his personality that he was eager to project: I don't want to be a Florus, Crawling round pubs, Skulking in pie-shops Bitten by bugs.
~ Elizabeth Speller