In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Thornton Wilder
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.