Nice Quotes

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. (H. L. Mencken)
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Most people are real nice, when you finally see them. View quote
Harper Lee
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? View quote
Edith Evans
Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. View quote
Will Rogers
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. View quote
George Will
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. (Gertrude Stein)
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. View quote
Dylan Thomas
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. View quote
Cyril Connolly
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. View quote
John Templeton
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. View quote
Abraham Cowley
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. View quote
George Burns
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! View quote
Miley Cyrus
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. (Desmond Tutu)
Be nice to people goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down. View quote
Jimmy Durante
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. View quote
Henry Kissinger
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. View quote
Mark Twain