Be Good Quotes - Page 11
'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2
Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2
Bernard O'Donoghue, Geoffrey Chaucer (2015). “Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection”, p.61, Faber & Faber
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
"Seven Words to the Cross". Book by Ellsworth Kalas, p. 93, 1979.
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.69, Xist Publishing
It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
Finley Peter Dunne (1903). “Observations by Mr. Dooley”, p.67, Library of Alexandria
'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on pessimism)
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
"Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks
Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.292