Quotes About Good nature

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend, For each ill author is as bad a friend. To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! Ah ne'er so dire a thirst of glory boast, Nor in the critic let the man be lost! Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true to their character, and as great strength is usually the cover for good nature, we get on with them at need.

If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.

A person who is really true to own good nature towards others can correctly and instantly identify also through the words the truly real character, good or bad, of even the unknown people.

A person who is truly good in nature does not get even a good support from own people in the neighbourhood.

A wise can watch through the writer's words to realize if the same author is actually good nature-wise or just portrays oneself as nice.

People can't and don't change their basic character because a crook person on being exposed either goes in hibernation for some time or just changes the mask of the face to behave as if s/he has now a good nature.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

on the storey higher, have my arranging to manage of my pretty new books and my three hyacinths, and a pot of primroses which dear Mr. Kenyon had the good nature to carry himself through the streets to our door. But all the flowers forswear me, and die either suddenly or gradually as soon as they become aware of the want of fresh air and light in my room. Talking of air and light, what exquisite weather this is! What a summer in winter!

Now that he wasn't trying to be frightening, Terrell's good nature shone, and he grinned as he smashed up my truck.

Putting an elbow on the drafting table and her chin in her palm, she simply looked at him. She wasn't angry. To the contrary. She had her lips pressed together; she was clearly trying not to smile—and he loved this about her, this good nature. Of course, that didn't solve his current problem. "You think this is funny?" he asked. "Actually," the corner of her mouth

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

Her character was simply to hold you by the particular spell;any other--the good nature of home, the relation of her mother, her friends, her lovers, her debts, the practice of virtues, or industries, or vices--was not worth speaking of. These things were the fictions and shadows, the representation was the deep substance.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.