We are never so generous as when giving advice.
Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.
i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up
On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
We hate the kindness which we understand.
I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
Some people around you don't mean you good.
Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.
