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Quotes About Good-natured

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
~ Joey McIntyre
This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.
~ Suzanne Collins
Police, I learned over the years, are like soldiers, normally good-natured people, but part of a culture of obedience to orders and capable of brutal acts against anyone designated as "the enemy"—in this case, the antiwar movement.
~ Howard Zinn
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.
~ Ian Holm
She was good-natured with a ribald sense of humour, breaking wind fairly frequently and uninhibitedly, then asking in a loud voice: "Who's let Johnny out of prison?" I
~ Susie Kelly
This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.
~ Suzanne Collins
Travelling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many trully goodnatured people there are.
~ Charles Darwin
Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
~ Cassandra Clare
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
~ Alexander Pope
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
What 'my lord' said, and what 'my lord' did, how useful he was in parliament, and how indispensable at Oxford, formed the daily burden of her talk. All this I bore very well: for I was too good-natured to laugh in any body's face, and I could make an ample allowance for the garrulity of an old servant.
~ Thomas de Quincey
I am a nice guy.
~ Fernandinho
I'm not mean. I'm a nice guy.
~ Jake McLaughlin
I'm a pretty nice guy.
~ Matt Riddle
I'm really a nice guy!
~ Jim Sarbh
I'm actually a very nice guy.
~ Dereck Chisora
If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.
~ Charles Dickens
Honus was a wonderful fellow, so good-natured and friendly to everyone. Gee, we loved that guy. And the fans were crazy about him. Yeah, everybody loved that old Dutchman! If anyone told a good joke or a funny story, Honus would slap his knee and let out a loud roar and say, "What about that!" So
~ Lawrence S. Ritter
Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
~ Lemony Snicket
Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but THAT did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.
~ Jane Austen
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
~ James Payn
Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
~ William Hazlitt