There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Oddly enough, it was he who had introduced the twins to Kathakali... He is searching for the beast that lives within him… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
“Guilliame. ‘No, I was born in the capital.’ He said no more than that. Charls supposed that he and Guilliame were two… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
The world is good natured to people who are good natured. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
“We worked so hard,” [Joan Blondell] said, “and hardly ever had a day off . . . Saturday was a working day… — Eve Golden Copy Share Image
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He liked to join in any game that was afoot, so long as it was simple, such as dominoes or draughts, but… — Molly Hughes Copy Share Image
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
