niceness quotes

Dag Hammarskjold: 

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Dutch proverb: 

Too nice is neighbor's fool.

Gertrude Stein: 

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.
1943


Jimmy Durante: 

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: 

Well behaved women rarely make history.

Mark Twain: 

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Saul Alinsky: 

Last guys don't finish nice.

Thomas Jefferson: 

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.