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I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty. -- Alan Bennett
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. -- James Payn
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. -- Robertson Davies
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land. -- Harriet Martineau
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. -- Walter Bagehot
Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets. -- Seth Shostak
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? -- Emma Willard
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone. -- James Wolcott
Some touch of Nature's genial glow. -- Walter Scott
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. -- William Wordsworth
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm. -- Henry David Thoreau
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine. -- Anacreon
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. -- Thomas Gray
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? -- Henry David Thoreau
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. -- Hermann Goring
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself. -- John Milton
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions. -- Neal Stephenson
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. -- Thomas Gray
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun! -- John Armstrong
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. -- Samuel Butler
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. -- Alexander Pope
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness. -- Kate Millett
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece. -- Maurice Chevalier
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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