Quotes About Amiability

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth,
with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
William Ellery Channing

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

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty,
and nothing more contemptible than the false.
Joseph Addison

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

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

The old adage comes to mind that basically says that you can get more with honey than with a stick, that is, you can accomplish more by using language that is not offensive or unpleasant than what you can achieve through being blunt or unfeeling. B. Rivers from Communication In The Workplace

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

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

Amiability lessons the misgivings of being human and
the problems of being fallible.
Byron Pulsifer