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Goodness Quotes (displaying: 1 - 30 of 512 quotes )

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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
Mae West
Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus
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Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Terry Prachett
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Goodness had nothing to do with it.
Mae West
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
Charles Bukowski
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Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
Cormac McCarthy
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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.
Terry Prachett
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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
Peter Shaffer
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Goodness me, the clock has struck-Alackday, and fuck my luck.
Kurt Vonnegut
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
Robert Penn Warren
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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess
Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.
Madeleine L'Engle
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
David Grayson
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Christopher Marlowe
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
Heinrich Mann
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Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
Luther Campbell
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night!
Kenneth Grahame
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I laughed derisively."For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious."I was laughing."Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit."Derisively," I explained.
P. G. Wodehouse
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
Leo Tolstoy
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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
C. S. Lewis
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Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.
Alex Haley