What is nice?

Famous quotes containing the word nice:

“These was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn’t somehow seem to take to them, because if ever I was down a little, they always give me the fan-tods. Everybody was sorry she died, because she had laid out a lot more of these pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost. But I reckoned, that with her disposition, she was having a better time in the graveyard.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Tiffany’s Salesman: Do they still really have prizes in Crackerjack boxes?
Paul: Oh, yes.
Tiffany’s Salesman: That’s nice to know. Gives one a feeling of solidarity, almost of continuity into the past, that sort of thing.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)