Good nature Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good nature Good sense Manners Nature Politeness Politeness Result Results Sense Good
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson 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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — 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 lovely face… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia's economy and quality of life. — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. — Albert Einstein 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 no easy… — 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 , Comrade… — 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 loving accuracy… — 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 enough to… — 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 of the… — 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 than other… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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