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The Nice Quotes

I suck at all this supernatural stuff. But I fry a mean chicken.
Oh, good. I hate it when the nice ones get fried.
- Darynda Jones

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
- Paulo Coelho

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.
- Ernest Hemingway

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
- Steve Allen

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.
- Andy Warhol

[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
- Hannah Arendt

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
- Bea Arthur

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
- Margaret Atwood

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
"The nicestby which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.
- Jane Austen

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
- Bill Ayers

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
- Irving Babbitt

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
- David Bailey

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
- Oscar Wilde

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
- Angela Bassett

I have the nicest life in the world.
- Alan Bean

Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.
- Jay Bell

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
- L M Montgomery

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
- L M Montgomery

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.
- Herman Wouk

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
- George Harrison

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
- Cilla Black

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
- Uwe Boll

Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.
- Alain De Botton

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
- Danny Boyle

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
- Carroll Bryant

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead.
You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Could I just use the loo?" I asked the nice officer.
"No." She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.
- Rick Riordan

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.
- Delta Burke

It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always
seems to happen to the nicest authors.
- Emily Giffin

Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle."
"You're going, too?"
"Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?"
"No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?"
Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.
- Rachel Caine

He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. "I think I'm more Batman," he said. "You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler." "Geek." His smile widened. "You say the nicest things. Haven't you heard? Geeks run the world now." -BLACK DAWN
- Rachel Caine

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
- Rachel Caine

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray."
Oh. "You get me the nicest things."
"Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
- Rachel Caine

That's what they all say. Everyone says they want to know you, but they don't. They want to know the nice things, the pretty things. No one wants to know the ugly parts, the parts that keep you up at night. They say they're okay with it, but then they drift away and you never see them again. I've seen it happen way too many times.
- Chelsea M Cameron

She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.
- George Carlin

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
- Humphrey Carpenter

If it works, it works,' Kat told him.
'And if it doesn't?' he asked.
She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.'
'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison.
And with that, it was decided.
- Ally Carter

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter

Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.
- Raymond Chandler

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
- Johnny Cash

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
- Dan Castellaneta

But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do.
- Connie Chung

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
- Sandra Cisneros

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
- Marilyn Monroe

Being called the nice girl, is way better than being called a bitch.
- Lauren Conrad

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.
- Sharon Creech

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
- Bette Davis

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
- Lilith Saintcrow

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
- Catherine Deneuve

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.
- Sarah Dessen

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
- David Duchovny

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
- Esther Dyson

Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
- Zac Efron

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
- Keith Emerson

The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
- Chris Evans

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- William Faulkner

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.
- Serena Williams

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.
- Gayle Forman

It's fine, Mencheres. Though if you'd told me I was about to meet such a legendary vampire, I would have grabbed the nicer silk drapery to wear instead, she replied, meeting Vlad's coppery green gaze with an arched brow.
- Jeaniene Frost

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy... betrays a poverty of ambition.
- Barack Obama

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
- Michael Gartner

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
- Mickey Gilley

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
- Haim Ginott

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
- Nikki Giovanni

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
- Isaac Goldberg

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
- Dwight Gooden

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
- Jennifer Lopez

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
- Laurell K Hamilton

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Henry A Kissinger

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.
- Davey Havok

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.
- Davey Havok

Maybe we can talk to them,' I said, tubbing my nose with the back of my hand. 'Have a little sit-down chat.'
'With tea.'
'Ooh, yeah, with the nice china, and those little sandwiches that don't have crusts.
- Rachel Hawkins

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.
- Rachel Hill

I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
- Paris Hilton

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
- Alicia Silverstone

Where are you going?"
"My God, you're like the plague."
"A masterfully crafted, powerfully understated, and epic parable of timeless moral resonance? Why, thank you. That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me," he said.
"The disease, Noah. Not the book."
"I'm ignoring that qualification.
- Michelle Hodkin

But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I'd ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a bus for a piece of chocolate.
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.
- Wyclef Jean

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
- Carly Rae Jepsen

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.
- Star Jones

But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet.
"Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
- Norton Juster

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
- Sue Monk Kidd

Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.
- Chuck Klosterman

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
- Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

Ella knew she should be horrified. Zane had killed someone for just touching her. But, and she might burn in hell for thinking this, she thought it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for her. In a perverted way, she also found it romantic. She finally had someone who wanted to protect her. My very own vampire in dark armor.
- Eve Langlais

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
- Yoko Ono

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
- C S Lewis

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
- Jerry Lewis

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.
- Jeff Lindsay

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
- Ray Liotta

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'
- Ray Liotta

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.
- Ron Livingston

...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.
- Alison Lurie

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.
- Kyle Maclachlan

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
- George Martin

All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers. No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
- Richard Matheson

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
- Mercedes Mccambridge

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.
- Bruce Mcculloch

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.
- Seanan Mcguire

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.
- Karen Marie Moning

Justin, please, you're annoying the nice man."
Justin blinked at the dumbstruck object of his attention as the breeze puffed a lock of shiny dark hair across the man's brow. "Nice man, please tell me your name so I know who to dream about tonight.
- Jet Mykles

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
- Howard Nemerov

This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.
- E Nesbit

Daddy dear, I'm only four
And I'd rather not be more.
Four's the nicest age to be,
Two and two and one and three.
What I love is two and two,
Mother, Peter, Phil, and you.
What you love is one and three,
Mother, Peter, Phil, and me.
Give your little girl a kiss
Because she learned and told you this.
- E Nesbit

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.
- Michael Newdow

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can't see each other.
- Tim O Reilly

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
- John Oates

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.
- William Odom

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- Ken Olsen

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
- Joel Osteen

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
- Joel Osteen

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
- Brad Paisley

Cliff, I'm completely exhausted by your blackness and I mean that in the nicest way possible. Nobody cares!
- Laura Pedersen

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
- Julie Powell

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
- Manuel Puig

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.
- Maggie Stiefvater

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.
- Mary Roach

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
- Wayne Rogers

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
- Rudy Rucker

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
- Barbra Streisand

Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?
- George Saunders

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
- Logan P Smith

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
- Stephen Sondheim

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
- Trish Stratus

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.
- Julia Sweeney

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
- James Taylor

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.
- Sean Patrick Thomas

Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. We all crooned at it. Alan [Rickman] to cat (very low and meaning it): 'Fuck off.' The nice lady didn't turn a hair. The cat looked slightly embarrassed but stayed.
- Emma Thompson

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.
- Flora Thompson

Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.
- Charlene Tilton

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
- Lee Trevino

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
- Donald Trump

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.
- Rachel Vincent

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
- Barbara Walters

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
- Max Weinberg

The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.
- T H White

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
- Ken Wilber

Home is the nicest word there is.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George Will

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
- Kenneth Williams

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
- Thom Yorke

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It's not flashy like the others, or bleary your window gives of this nice, quiet light.
- Banana Yoshimoto

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