AMIABILITY

Related Subjects: Courtesy, Friendship, Good Humor

1. Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.—ADDISON, The Spectator

2. As good-natured a soul as e'er trod on shoe of leather.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote

3. We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.—CICERO

4. That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation.—FIELDING

5. Amiability shines by its own light.—HORACE

6. Good nature without prudence, is foolishness.—Proverb