Niceness Quotes

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  • It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.

    Judith Kelman (2004). “Every Step You Take”, Jove Publications
  • I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

    David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK
  • I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

    "The Importance of Unbelief". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.
  • It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody.

    Source: collider.com
  • You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

    Football   White   Lame  
    Source: theblacksheeponline.com
  • Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

    David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK
  • It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

    John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.287, Templeton Foundation Press
  • nice is such a rip-off.

    Nice   Rip   Niceness  
    Marvin Cohen, J. Gilhooley, M. Pinero, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange (1986). “Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival”, Broadway Play Publishing
  • Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

    Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, is said to have remarked, "You don't have to be nice to people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again."
  • It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

    Nice   Men   People  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.149, Penguin
  • I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

    Source: www.economist.com
  • Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

    Women   Self   Niceness  
    William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

    "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.
  • If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

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

    Mother   Kindness   Long  
    Source: chicagoist.com
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press
  • This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

    Nice   Doors   People  
    Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam
  • A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

    Nice   People   Would Be  
    C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction
  • I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

    Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.226, Hachette UK
  • I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

  • He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions
  • The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  • Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

  • Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

  • Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

    Nice   Mean   Being Nice  
  • Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  • A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

  • You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  • One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

    Jesus   Sorry   Ideas  
    "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.
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