Top 100 Quotes About Good Company
#1. There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company.
Gracie Gold
#2. Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come.
Geoffroi De Charny
#3. Then again, having people around was no guarantee that they'd make good company.
Jessica Lawson
#4. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
#7. Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company
the gout or stone.
Lord Byron
#8. Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
Luis Barragan
#10. I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.
Angela Bassett
#13. The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive.
Euginia Herlihy
#14. The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.
Henry James
#15. There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.
Tommy Bolt
#16. In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet.
Luisa Weiss
#17. Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
George Herbert
#19. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes
#20. I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
Barbara Eden
#21. There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
Douglas Coupland
#22. Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.
Bryant McGill
#23. I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
Jim Dale
#24. One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
E. Lockhart
#25. Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
Cato The Younger
#26. Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
Rene Descartes
#27. Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#28. And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.
James Van Fleet
#29. Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Louisa May Alcott
#30. Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
Ezra Taft Benson
#31. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Louisa May Alcott
#32. Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.
Francis De Sales
#33. For he that will say and nothing do
Is not worthy with good company to go.
Anonymous
#34. Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
Gary Gygax
#35. Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
Paul Cezanne
#36. So I "feckup" words sometimes ... I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company.
Emma Paul
#37. The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
Eric Schlosser
#38. Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
Sathya Sai Baba
#40. To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.
John Landy
#41. If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.
Timothy McVeigh
#42. Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
Bryan Procter
#43. It is always rather dismal work walking over the great snow plain when sky and surface merge in one pall of dead whiteness, but it is cheering to be in such good company with everything going on steadily and well.
Robert Falcon Scott
#44. If you're not good company for yourself, you won't be good company for others.
Marty Rubin
#45. It doesn't take long in Hell before your definition of "good company" reduces to "not dead." For
Mark Lawrence
#46. Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
Garry Wills
#47. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
#48. I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way".
Stephen King
#49. I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.
Fanny Brice
#50. If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.
Dilip Shanghvi
#51. In 1895, Ann Strong declared in the Minneapolis Tribune that bicycles were "just as good company as most husbands" and that when a bicycle gets shabby or old a woman could "dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.
Frances E. Willard
#52. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
#53. There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
#55. I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
Florence Green
#56. He's experienced.
He has a mind.
He seduced me and took his time doing it.
He's good company.
He makes me think.
Knowing him has changed me forever.
Coleman Dowell
#57. If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#58. I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
Alice Hoffman
#59. The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.
Topher Grace
#60. Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.
Patricia Briggs
#61. Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#62. To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#63. People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
#64. Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
Edmund Burke
#65. Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
George Washington
#66. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.
Patricia Gaffney
#67. If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.
Robert Kiyosaki
#68. It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#69. Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
George Gordon Byron
#70. No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.
L.M. Montgomery
#71. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
Marie Leszczynska
#73. I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.
J.K. Rowling
#74. ... books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
Louisa May Alcott
#75. I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
Amanda Donohoe
#76. Without good company all dainties
Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted.
Philip Massinger
#77. Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Louis Kronenberger
#78. I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's another way of saying it was all I had.
Michael Chabon
#80. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher
#81. Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.
Richard Thaler
#82. A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
Michel De Montaigne
#83. An echo makes good company, Old Margaret said. Whenever I'm lonely, I always try to find one to talk to. They're much better than mirrors. Mirrors say nasty things about you. Echoes are far more supportive. They think whatever you say is completely brilliant.
Gabrielle Zevin
#84. The road might twist ups and downs. But as you dare to keep moving forward, you might make some good company along the way.
Ariff Adly
#85. If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
Saul Perlmutter
#86. Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
Aimee Bender
#87. I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
Charles Bukowski
#88. One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
Dave Chambers
#89. Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.
Spencer W. Kimball
#92. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Peter O'Toole
#93. For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
C.V. Wedgwood
#94. A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.
Philip Kotler
#95. I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.
Robert Stephen Parry
#96. Tack didn't grin. He tugged on my arm and dragged me down the hall to his bedroom. Dinner was chips and dip, beer and tequila and good company. Dessert was Cool Whip and Tack. In other words, dessert was the bomb!
Kristen Ashley
#97. No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#98. They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.
David Levithan
#99. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Jane Austen
#100. The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Pope John XXIII
