Goodnatured Quotes
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Two honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, "What luck?"
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More Goodnatured Quotes
If there is anything to one's praise, it is a foolish vanity to be gratified at it; and, if it is abusewhy one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1779 Sir Fretful Plagiary, of newspaper criticism.The Critic, act1, sc.1.
We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight.
Gertrude Stein— include The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Everybody's Autobiography (1937).
Old intelligence hands still remember this good-natured and wise man.
ivan agayants— Vadim Kirpichenko
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.
joseph addison— No. 192. (The Tatler (1711–1714))
A good-natured woman...which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor.
Charles Lamb— Letter to Hazlitt (November 10, 1805)
“Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.” She heaved a sigh. “But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.” “Does it for anyone?” asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism. “Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.”
jack vance— Chapter 13 (p. 134)
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 192.
Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.
— Charles L. Aarons, Hatch v. Lewinsky et al. (19 April 1945), p. 9
