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Amiable Quotes

Easy warmth, and what it takes to keep it.

These quotes treat 'amiable' as something earned rather than easy — simple enough in happiness, harder to sustain once desire fades into satisfaction.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Thomas Mann

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.

Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

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.

Quotes by Paul Begala

Being Quotes

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

Quotes by Mary Astell

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Quotes by Maria Doyle Kennedy

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

Quotes by Lord Byron

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...

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

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.

Quotes by John W. Gardner

Best Quotes

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.

Quotes by Eliza Haywood

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...

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

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...

Quotes by Charles Perrault

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.

Quotes by Charles Inglis

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

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these amiable quotes focus on?
They explore amiability as a quality that's easy in good times but harder to sustain — plus a warning against mistaking amiable mediocrity for genuine excellence.
Why do people search for amiable quotes?
They're useful for reflections on kindness, likability, and character, especially when someone wants a nuanced take rather than a simple compliment about being nice.
Is there a quote warning against settling for being merely amiable?
Yes — one argues that a nation's ideals can't survive if the highest goal people set for themselves is an amiable mediocrity, insisting excellence demands striving for the highest standard instead.
Is there a quote connecting amiability to desire or satisfaction?
Yes — one claims only someone who still desires is truly amiable, not someone who is already satisfied, suggesting amiability requires a bit of ongoing effort.
Do any quotes tie amiability to love or pleasure?
One does — calling it among life's greatest pleasures to give and receive love from the kindest, best possible being imaginable.

One warns against settling for amiable mediocrity over real excellence, while another ties amiability to loving the best being there is.