In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
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.