Genial Quotes

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.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

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?

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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.

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.