Goodnatured Quotes 

Two honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, "What luck?"
Henry Van Dyke
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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.

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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).

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Old intelligence hands still remember this good-natured and wise man.

ivan agayants

— Vadim Kirpichenko

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A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

joseph addison

— No. 192. (The Tatler (1711–1714))

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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)

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“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)

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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.

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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

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Nikita Khruschev was a difficult man to deal with, often very hard, always determined. But his peasant side which made him alternatively good-natured and cunning, also made him likeable.

nikita khrushchev

— Page 142 (The Shah's Story (1980))

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