Top 100 Too Good Quotes
#1. Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Benjamin Franklin
#2. The idea that there is an unconditional love that relieves the pressure, forgives our failures, and replaces our fear with faith seems too good to be true.
Preston Sprinkle
#3. I promise you, whatever we are together, it's not a mistake. It's too good to be a mistake.
Ruthie Knox
#4. 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
#5. The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.
Beyonce Knowles
#6. Why didn't they just toss the kid in her crib?"
"You haven't been around many kids, have you?"
"Not safe. They smell too good, like tasty snacks.
Judith Post
#7. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen
#8. As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
Josh Elliott
#9. When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
Criss Jami
#10. Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
John Bunyan
#11. I'm a vegetarian, well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste, and I hate vegetables on a personal level so I'm not too good!
Dylan Moran
#12. I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.
Billy Campbell
#13. I'm too good for assimilation.
Kola Boof
#14. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
Tyler Perry
#15. You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.
Eddie Murphy
#16. Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
Cristiane Serruya
#17. When actors are too good-looking, I can't memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn't say, That girl's pretty. Who is that?
Tina Fey
#18. If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
Blake Mycoskie
#20. He's me, Jaime realized suddenly. I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young.
Anonymous
#21. Never trust a writer. They are too good at making Stories.
Himanshu Chhabra
#22. My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
Gary Bettman
#23. You always study the players you go against. You try and stay ahead of it. Those guys are just too good to just show up on Sunday and think you're going to do well. Every week it seems like there's an all-star out there - to me, anyway. Every week is a rodeo. You just hope for the best.
Tom Ashworth
#24. I love that sensation, when you think, this is too good, I'll catch up with everyone else later. You just have to take in the truth of that expanse a few more seconds before it changes and becomes something else entirely, or before you do.
Mary-Louise Parker
#25. [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
#26. No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Max Weber
#27. Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Norman Douglas
#28. I'd learned that when something sounded too good to be true, it almost always was.
Anonymous
#29. My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
Trevor Phillips
#30. Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?"
Tatiana stared at him. "Life has," she said slowly, "been too good to me.
Paullina Simons
#31. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
#32. I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
Kimbra
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#37. If you're too good too much of the time, people start to forget about you. You're not a problem, so people can strike you off their list of things to worry about.
Lev Grossman
#38. We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.
John Dillinger
#39. Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#40. We were all too good at pretending to be normal, like the world would end if anyone realized who we actually were inside--
Jung Yun
#41. Are you scared?" he said into my hair.
"Yeah."
"What scares you?"
I kept my eyes on the ceiling.
"That this is too good. That it won't last. That you'll leave.
Leah Raeder
#42. All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
Alice Hegan Rice
#43. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Matthew Henry
#44. Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
Megan McArdle
#45. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
Jim Dodge
#46. Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.
Kami Garcia
#47. I didn't want Vince McMahon to be upset if the shots looked too good and take it out on Hogan! Hulk thanked me for "thinking in the right direction"... I took about 35 photos, and then Linda took one of Hulk and me together that I have never used in any magazine.
Bill Apter
#48. I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
Terry Crews
#49. Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...
Katharine Tynan
#50. Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.
Jurgen Klopp
#51. An arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.
Bernard Cornwell
#52. Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.
Carol Shields
#53. Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.
C.S. Lewis
#54. I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true - and it's real.
Frank Schaeffer
#55. 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
#56. When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!
Pixie Lott
#57. Fey ... a Scotch word ... It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know
it's too good to be true.
Agatha Christie
#58. God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. It was too good to be true, too sweet to be reality for too long, so when someone set out to destroy his belief in her, it made more sense to doubt her than to believe that she had truly loved him in the first place.
Amy Harmon
#60. A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.
Ray Romano
#62. A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
Penn Jillette
#63. Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. 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,
#65. Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
Willy Ronis
#66. 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
#67. By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.
S.A. Tawks
#69. The Universalists believe
that God is too good to damn [humanity],
while the Unitarians believe
that [humanity] is too good to be damned by God.
Thomas Starr King
#71. But what I am beginning to suspect is that most guilty people reject the possibility of forgiveness not because it is too good to believe, but because they fear the responsibility forgiveness entails. It's hell to be guilty, but its worse to be responsible.
William Sloane Coffin
#72. It's become important so quickly. Maybe too quickly. I keep thinking it's too good to be true.
Sylvia Day
#74. I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.
Muriel Wace
#75. Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.
Gay Brewer
#76. When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
Malcolm Turnbull
#77. There was always a slug on the lettuce.
This was too good to be true.
He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David.
He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet.
Being carful had kept him alive this far.
There was no reason to stop being careful now.
Charlie Higson
#78. 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
#79. Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.
Ernie Els
#80. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
Izaak Walton
#81. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
Merilyn Simonds
#82. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#84. And still, even when he'd told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she'd held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction.
Bella Andre
#85. It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
Sarah Dessen
#86. God damn it," Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. "Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.
John Scalzi
#87. To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?
Shusaku Endo
#88. 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
#89. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.
Ayn Rand
#90. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?
Markus Zusak
#91. As a boy when his mother told him to listen to the voice inside him to help him tell the difference between right and wrong, nothing happened. He concluded that "either I was too wicked to have a conscience or too good to need one".
Julian Jaynes
#92. Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.
Hetty King
#93. Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.
As for me, I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless
#95. The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.
Paula Radcliffe
#96. 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
#97. Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.
Jerome Frank
#98. Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I
#99. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Emma Donoghue
#100. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Rob Bell
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