Quotes About Niceness

John's niceness about signing his Double Fantasy album temporarily disarmed him.

A]s Norman Mailer pointed out decades ago, and Philip Roth not long afterwards, niceness is the enemy. Every soft stroke from society is like the pfft of an aerosol can as it eats up a few more atoms of our brain's delicate ozone, and furthers our personal cretinization.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

The people of New Zealand are generally terribly nice. Everybody we had met so far had been terribly nice to us. Terribly nice and eager to please. I realised now that all this relentless niceness and geniality to which we had been subjected had got to me rather badly. New Zealand niceness is not merely disarming, it's decapitating as well, and I had come to feel that if Just one more person was pleasant and genial at me I'd hit him.

He's very nice," said Mrs. Clayton, "but not quite quite, you know. Hasn't got any idea of culture." Richard found his room exceedingly comfortable, and his appreciation of Mrs. Clayton as a hostess rose still higher.

One thing that continues to worry me is Phil's naivety. It's lovely in ways, but as his dad I don't want him ever to be taken advantage of because of his niceness.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

At times, I suspect that the concept of maturity is maintained by a conspiracy of niceness.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.

I turned to Dionysus. You cured him? Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple. But...you did something nice. Why? He raised and eyebrow. I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?

Most people are incapable of understanding a woman like you," he said simply. "You defy comprehension." "That might be the nicest thing you have ever said to me.

The point is that you feel uncomfortable, and you're trying to talk yourself out of it because you think you're supposed to be nice.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

I'm a nice guy. I'm trying to be positive. I've got my own things, I'm kinda crazy but I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm trying to be good and I'm doing the best I can. Just like everybody else.

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

When I was younger," she said slowly, "I always hoped you were hiding some horrid secret. You were too nice." She sniffed. "You have no idea how annoying it is that your horrid secret is a heart complaint, and not, for instance, a double murder committed by moonlight.

The weird thing is I have now met quite a lot of people who are really famous but they are always disappointingly normal and nice. Alan Carr is very nice indeed. Exactly how you would expect him to be, and not that different from how he is on stage.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Without envy, there could be no recognition of one's desires. So Symons gave Carol another ten-minute slot to list everyone she most regularly envied – adding on his way out of the room that he didn't care for niceness and that if there were not at least two names of close colleagues or friends on her piece of paper, he would know that she had been evasively sentimental.