Amiably Quotes

#1. Listen amply.
Listen aptly.
Listen avidly.
Listen amiably.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

Artemas Ward

#3. A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.

Josiah Royce

#4. Everyone's got history," Baasen said amiably. "Man still has to work, whatever's in his past, eh?

James S.A. Corey

#5. Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly
something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

George Eliot

#6. Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word.

Larry Niven

#7. The gunslinger nodded amiably.

Stephen King

#8. I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.

Sarah Bird

#9. She frowned at him. "You're bossy."
"Yes, I am," he agreed, amiably. "Isn't it a shame you happen to like that?

Cherise Sinclair

#10. You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.

Kerry Greenwood

#11. Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Martin Amis

#12. No one ever arrives home," she said amiably. "But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Percy gave her a sideways smile. "Yeah, we can't have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason." "Or I might kill my bro Percy," Jason said amiably.

Rick Riordan

#14. Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.

Anthony Powell

#15. Nike could start you two fighting easily." Percy gave her a sideways smile. "Yeah, we can't have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason." "Or I might kill my bro Percy," Jason said amiably. "Which proves my point," Annabeth said.

Rick Riordan

#16. The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

Saint Francis De Sales

#17. I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

Clifford Geertz

#18. I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

Katy Perry

#19. No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

Harvey Spencer Lewis

#20. It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#21. Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

John Cage