Top 100 Too Good For Quotes
#2. I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him ... he was a blind man who see better than anyone
Sheridan Hay
#3. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
#4. She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.
Jane Austen
#5. There are some people that don't take jobs because they think that they're too good for them or that they aspire to do something greater than the job that they're being presented with. I've just never been from that school.
Busy Philipps
#7. She broke his heart. Tar was too good for her, and he simply realized it. She beat her chest convinced that any fragment left behind needed to be removed. A
Lora Ann
#8. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West
#9. Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him, simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
A.J. Liebling
#10. Touched you, kissed you, been near you ... fallen in love with you ... you're too good for me ...
Jessica Sorensen
#11. Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
Dejan Stojanovic
#12. I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
Matthew Fox
#13. What Vera doesn't know is: I'd kill to be a pickle on her Big Mac - ground to relish between her perfect white teeth.
I'd kill to be a bug she squishes with her holey Army-issue combat boot.
But she's too good for me. She always was.
A.S. King
#14. You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.
Ethel Merman
#15. Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you.
Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.
L.J.Smith
#16. She played pretty much every sport, her favorite being volleyball. My favorite part of her: she had that smart, I'm-too-good-for-this-I-read-Vonnegut attitude about her.
RH Ramsey
#17. The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
George Howe Colt
#18. I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
George Polya
#19. The devil wishes to assure some people that there's no need for repentance, and others that there's no hope for mercy. Some people are deceived into thinking they are too good for the gospel while others are accused into thinking they are too bad for the gospel.
Russell D. Moore
#20. You know what's your problem? You're too good for your own good.
Shantaye Brown
#21. Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat-haters. YOU LIKE GREAT BIG DOGS, I IMAGINE.
Terry Pratchett
#23. You see, everyone thinks they're too good for day-old pastry, like one-third off is charity or something. The world is full of snobs. Snobs and slobs. I ought to write a book.
Wally Lamb
#24. In the end the only thing that got me through was the belief that she was too good for this place ... She was too good for this place.
Samantha Young
#25. Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Doris Lessing
#26. [N]obody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
#27. You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
Paul Auster
#28. Marijuana should be licensed and kept out of the hands of teenagers. It's too good for them.
Pat Paulsen
#29. This is why I spent so long fighting my feelings for you. You don't belong in my world. You're too good for it. For me. I thought I was ready to be who you needed me to be, but I fell at the first hurdle.
Siobhan Davis
#30. As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.
Robert De Niro
#31. It was a smart decision. You're too good for him."
I roll my eyes. "You keep saying that. Is there something you know that I don't?" I ask.
"You," he replies, matter of fact.
Katie Klein
#32. If you ever wonder whether or not someone is too good for you, I'd advise going through their trash. Really. No one looks superior after that.
Ally Carter
#33. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.
Jean Kennedy Smith
#34. You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
Alton Brown
#35. I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
Manuel Moroun
#36. I can go to school later if I want to. But don't marry someone you don't love, darling. You're too good for that." Daddy
Melissa Jagears
#37. You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!
Nikki Glaser
#38. I've always known deep down I was no good for her, and she was too good for me. This is how it should be. Then why do I feel like shit? Why is this so painful?
E.L. James
#39. You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.
John Williams
#40. Actually," Finn said, sniffing, "I was too good for you. I've ruined you for all other men." "Hardly. I've had longer, deeper, more meaningful relationships with cheeseburgers than I did with you." "Yes, but at least I didn't go straight to your ass," he said in a smug, superior tone.
Jennifer Estep
#41. Fuck you. You can't hurt us anymore. Oblivion is too good for you. Enjoy the fire. You've earned it. Your daughter
R.K. Lilley
#42. But stay away from him, Juliana. When we said we wanted to make you a good match, Leighton was not who we imagined."
Even her brother thought Simon too good for her.
"Because he is a duke?"
"What? No," Ralston said, truly perplexed by her instant defensive response. "Because he's an ass.
Sarah MacLean
#43. Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")
Cornell Woolrich
#44. The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
Robert Morley
#45. I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
Jack Johnson
#46. Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.
Brian Urlacher
#47. No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
Timothy Keller
#48. So you like her and you're scared. Now what?"
"Nothing. It just sucks that I finally found the girl worth having and she's too good for me.
Jamie McGuire
#49. Do you think it's going to rain, Buttercup?" "I don't think so; the sky is blue." "Well, it might rain." "Yes, I suppose it might." "You think you're too good for anybody, don't you, Buttercup?" "No, I just don't think it's going to rain, that's all.
Anonymous
#50. A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
Penn Jillette
#51. This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
George Eliot
#54. Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
Ann Landers
#55. He'll protect me until his dying breath. He's too good. Too good for me, that's for fucking sure. I finally meet a decent, hardworking, adorable man with a chivalrous streak a mile long to boot and he ends up being my adopted brother. And a werewolf, but nobody's perfect.
Anonymous
#56. I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.
Kate Smith
#57. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
Merilyn Simonds
#58. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
Izaak Walton
#59. The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.
Vera Caspary
#60. My heart hurt to see her in pain and, for one second, i shut down all emotion. One day, she'd figure out she was too good for a loser like me and when she left, i didn't know how i'd deal with the pain. Hell, she was worth it. I enfolded her into my body once more, kissing the side of her neck.
Katie McGarry
#61. They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean
Laurie Halse Anderson
#62. Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Norman Douglas
#63. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#64. I'm too good for assimilation.
Kola Boof
#65. Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
John Bunyan
#66. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen
#67. Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison
#68. Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. Brick by brick.
Brick by brick, I will destroy you.
"It was the promise that let him sleep at night, that drove him every day, that kept Jordie's ghost at bay. Because a quick death was too good for Pekka Rollins.
Leigh Bardugo
#70. My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains ... For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.
Ma Rainey
#71. Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.
Judith Martin
#72. I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859
Deborah Heiligman
#73. Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
William, Saroyan
#74. I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'"
"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste."
Brett's glass was empty.
Ernest Hemingway,
#75. You were always too good for here Feyre. Too good for us, too good for everyone.' He squeezed my hand. 'If you ever escape, ever convince them that you've paid the debt, don't return.
Sarah J. Maas
#76. She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#77. The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
Bruce Lee
#78. I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.
Douglas Kirkland
#80. Even now, even as she faced a lifetime with him, she thought of her sisters. She was legions too good for him.
Sarah MacLean
#81. I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.
Terry Pratchett
#82. Until you, I felt like nothing. I was nothing. You gave me everything and I plan to do the same for you. You're too good for me, but I plan to make that up to you with how good I'm going to be for you. With you. Because of you.
T.M. Frazier
#83. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.
Jo Nesbo
#84. I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.
Phil Daniels
#85. Things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
Vernon Lee
#86. What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!
Cher
#87. I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
John Legend
#88. I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up.
Liam Gallagher
#89. Tonight when the moon
was almost full
the sky too bright for love
I met in a wood
a dream pale owl
with eyes that were not blue
and like myself, he was not wise
and he was not good
but sometime he was true.
John Squadra
#90. It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space
that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.
Peter S. Beagle
#91. The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
Bowe Bergdahl
#92. What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?
Ysabella Brave
#93. That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?
Jennifer Haigh
#94. The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.
Rebecca West
#95. You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national pride to have to disband it so they turned it into a Coastguard. I think it does a few other bits and bobs too.
Tim FitzHigham
#97. Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
Julia Child
#98. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.
Henry James
#99. You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that'll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make 'em real.
Ruta Sepetys
#100. I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.
Scott Rigell
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