Top 42 Affable Quotes
#1. It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer ... a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.
Christopher Moore
#2. We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#3. He was friendly as a warm bowl of soup. An affable guy, he always had a dimpled smile on his face and lived life unplagued by want.
Joseph G. Peterson
#4. Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.
Ja'far Al-Sadiq
#5. I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
Rashida Jones
#6. Dignity, virtue, affability, and bearing," Mrs. Lytton recited over and over, turning it into a nursery rhyme.
Georgiana would glance at the glass, checking her dignified bearing and affable expression.
Olivia would sing back to her mother: "Debility, vanity, absurdity, and ... brainlessness!
Eloisa James
#7. Are the rules more important to you than friendship?"
" 'Friendship' is a strong word. I'd prefer 'good relationship between colleagues.' "
She proffered this expression with ingenuous, affable calm.
Amelie Nothomb
#8. Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.
Mark Gatiss
#9. Most politicians' voices dripped with air kisses and firm handshakes, affable and approachable, telling you what you wanted to hear. But Jonathon Brond had an edge. The man didn't hide the power in his voice.
Elizabeth SaFleur
#10. That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
William Shakespeare
#11. polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
Ron Chernow
#12. There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#13. The grin on his face wasn't the affable, friendly sort; instead, it was the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bug-fuckeringly insane
Kevin Hearne
#14. I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.
Alison Moyet
#15. I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#16. Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
Vicente Del Bosque
#17. A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.
Tim Armstrong
#18. Not the most beautiful, or artistic, or intellectual of cities in Italy, Ascoli Piceno is certainly one of the most easy going and affable, good to look at without being awesome. It is energetic and worldly, and it eats well.
Kate Simon
#19. You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.
Tobias Wolff
#20. Indulged a pair of affable though persistent Zeugen Jehovas who, each month, arrived on her doorstep with a German-language copy of The Watchtower.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#21. The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.
Julia Quinn
#22. Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
Markus Zusak
#23. It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
Thomas More
#24. When I first called Jerry Wexler, the man everybody most associates with Berns's career, and told him I planned to work on this book, Wexler's affable tone disappeared. "I'll tell you this," he said. "I don't know where he's buried, but if I did, I would piss on his grave.
Joel Selvin
#25. Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Bette Davis
#26. Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen - the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.
Amanda Hesser
#27. AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.
Lois Lowry
#28. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
Moliere
#31. My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.
Robert Lefkowitz
#32. I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
Martin Freeman
#33. Tarryton did so, but not before saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Billington came up to scratch on this gel."
"Billington, Farnsworth, and a few others," Alex said with his most affable smile.
"Ashbourne?" Dunford's voice was colder than ice.
"Dunford?"
"Shut up.
Julia Quinn
#34. A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#35. In April, he spent ten days off the grid training with Carmichael and Bob Roll, Carmichael's affable thirty-eight-year-old former 7-Eleven teammate, in the college town of Boone, North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains.
Reed Albergotti
#36. The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.
James Kirkup
#37. Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
#39. A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand
#40. Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man ... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. My love is like a magical dancing spirit. It is mighty but affable; invisible but infinite.
Debasish Mridha
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
