Good Nature Quotes:

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Men, World, Good Nature

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Men, Good Nature, Origin Of Species

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Weak, Goodness, Good Nature

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: God Bless, Bless, Good Nature

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature, True Christianity

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

- John Dryden

topic: Reason, Good Nature

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Men, Shining, Good Nature

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Men, Good Nature, Good Humor

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

- Mark Twain

topic: Humor, Sides, Good Nature

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Results, Politeness, Good Nature

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

- William Shenstone

topic: Taste, Wit, Good Nature

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

- William Shenstone

topic: Taste, Good Nature, Connected

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

- William Wycherley

topic: Goodness, Companion, Good Nature

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

- Sydney Smith

source: Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.459

topic: Army, Politeness, Good Nature

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.7, Modern Library

topic: Confidence, Honesty, Good Nature

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

topic: Nature, Goodness, Good Nature

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.240, Harvard University Press

topic: Stronger, Good Nature

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.98, Random House

topic: Green World, Good Nature, Feels

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

topic: Literature, Good Nature, Bottom

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

- Benjamin Whichcote

source: Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.52

topic: Christian, Human Nature, Good Nature, Heathen

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

topic: Matter, Goodness, Good Nature

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1800). “Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author”, p.124

topic: Honesty, Hurtful, Good Nature

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Foundation, Breeding, Good Nature, Good Breeding