Quotes with amiable

  • 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.

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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Lord George Byron Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Queen Victoria I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Seneca No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Brandon Sanderson That could be solved, Siri said, Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.
    Warbreaker (2009)
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • John W. Gardner 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.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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