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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope

Amiable weaknesses of human nature. — Edward Gibbon

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. — Lord Byron

She hated war and liked soldiers - it was one of her amiable inconsistencies. — E. M. Forster

It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody. — Thomas Jefferson

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. — John Muir

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations. — Emmanuel Des Essarts

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. — Mary Astell

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable. — William Osler

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. — Thomas Mann

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable. — Maggie Stiefvater

A man's errors are what make him amiable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

However amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched. — Jane Austen

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw

To say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already. — Jane Austen

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. — Maria Doyle Kennedy

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!"
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better. — Georgette Heyer

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. — Benjamin Disraeli

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion. — H.L. Mencken

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable — Emma Goldrick

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. — Samuel Johnson

Virtue is not always amiable. — John Adams

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified. — Henry David Thoreau

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. — William Ellery Channing

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland

[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product. — Gayle Forman

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. — John Gordon Sinclair

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca The Elder

And yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham. — Jane Austen

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. — Joseph Addison

Are you a lefty?" he asked with amiable interest.
"No. But if this hand gets bitten off, I'll still have my good one to write with. — Lisa Kleypas

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart. — Alexandre Dumas

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring. — Jeremiah Seed

Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him in the Face. — Jane Austen

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison

His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola. — Dorothy L. Sayers

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.. — Jane Austen

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. — Jane Austen

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation ... — Edmund Burke

...but an amiable handsome baronet, who said 'Exactly' to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover? — George Elliot

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable. — Jane Austen

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. — Jean De La Bruyere

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm an amiable drunk. Given enough time I always reach the point where every man is my brother. — Mark Lawrence

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. — Nicolas Chamfort

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny! — Florence Converse

That you may be beloved, be amiable. — Ovid

Rain"
Oh amiable rain
Washer of trees
and roofs
who has prepared them
for
the pink ray
of evening
("Poems") — Charlotte Gardelle

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, "Oh well, sin doesn't matter much"? — Oswald Chambers