Top 19 Quotes About Affability

#1. Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#2. Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,
I mean good-nature,
are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

John Dryden

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#3. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Hugh Blair

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#4. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#5. for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#6. But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one.

Marcel Proust

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#7. 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

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#8. Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Van Wyck Brooks

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#9. Jealousy is the foundation of equality, but not of liberty ; putting man constantly on his guard against the encroachments of his neighbors. It prevents affability between different classes. There is no society without affection, without tradition, without respect, without mutual amenity.

Ernest Renan

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#10. In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#11. Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn't need a four-colored label to make it go.

George Horace Lorimer

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#12. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Charles Baxter

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#13. When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Honore De Balzac

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#14. Sex is not merely an entertainment; it is a courtesy and affability.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#15. I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Hugo Grotius

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#16. In L.A., you seem to meet only one sort of person.

Amanda Eliasch

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#17. When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.

James Franco

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#18. There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

Adele Parks

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#19. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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