Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good…

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the…

— John Dryden

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

— Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with me, and…

— Voltaire

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

— Anonymous

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

— William Wycherley

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

— Henry David Thoreau

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy,…

— Joseph Addison

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

— Sydney Smith

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the…

— Horace Walpole

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

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…

— John Dryden