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Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. - Dorothee DeLuzy 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. - Henry Fielding Amiability shines by its own light. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. - Lady Sydney Morgan The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at expense of any of the virtues. He seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. - William Gilmore Simms How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success! - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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