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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Virtue is not always amiable.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.
I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
