A Quote by William Wycherley

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

William Wycherley

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William Wycherley
English - Dramatist
1640 - January 1, 1716

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.

Jean Chatzky

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

Charles Caleb Colton

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

A. E. Housman

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

Henry David Thoreau

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Joseph Addison

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

William H. McMaster

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

A. E. Housman

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Sydney Smith

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Oliver Goldsmith

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.