Definition of Amiable

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Amiable

Lovable; lovely; pleasing.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.

Done out of love.

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Amiable Quotations

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen

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

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

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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.
John Henry Newman

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

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