Quotes About Affability

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Dignity, virtue, affability, and bearing ," Mrs. Lytton recited over and over, turning it into a nursery rhyme. Georgiana would glance at the glass, checking her dignified bearing and affable expression. Olivia would sing back to her mother: "Debility, vanity, absurdity, and… brainlessness!

It is fun to play someone who likes everyone and is liked by most people, or is at least tolerated.

He responded to each person he met as if he were already a friend.

Don Francisco Penáguilas, padre del joven, era un hombre más que bueno, era inmejorable, superiormente discreto, bondadoso, afable, honrado y magnánimo, no falto de instrucción.

An introvert with a Texan's affability, I was well intentioned but weak on follow-through; not without reason did an old friend refer to me as the gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.

Todo cuanto el sombrerero destilaba de afabilidad y entusiasmo, don Ricardo exhalaba en crueldad y fortaleza. Su sonrisa canina dejaba claro que era capaz de leer sus pensamientos y sus deseos y que se reía de ellos. Sophie sintió por él ese anémico desprecio que despiertan las cosas que más deseamos sin saberlo

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.

She] was a true light upon a hill. She was a person of humility, affability, compassion and on whose tongue was the law of kindness. Her ear was open to the complaints of the afflicted, and her hand was open for the supply of the needy. If others were so unhappy as to divide into parties and to burn with contention, yet she remained a common friend to all. She was...ready to minister to them to the utmost of her power.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

When you're around people, act like you like them.

schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the

You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't around!

He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his "agreeable affability," "unassuming manner," and "polite attentions to all orders and ranks"...

Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many people he knew, but he had never seen anything but affability in her.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

If you're likable, people will like you.

La gente, persino le brave persone - ché certo Wally era una brava persona - facevano un sacco di critiche a qualcuno con cui poi si mostravano perfettamente affabili.

But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said it in the nicest way imaginable, in order to be loved and admired, but not to be believed; that one should discern the fictitious character of this affability was what they called being well-bred; to suppose it to be genuine, a sign of ill-breeding.

But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one.