Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
I've come to realise a Great Truth, you know. Just because Dr Johnson said something, that doesn't make it true, or meaningful, insightful or real. It just means that Dr Johnson said it. The same holds for quotes from Shakespeare, Gandhi or the bible. In short, I care not what Dr Johnson said.

Now, about these nice people; you appear to be suggesting that a chap is possessed of but a single characteristic. I put it to you that this is not the case. A fellow might be nice, funny, charming, erudite and fascinating, just as a chap might be rude, ignorant, violent and boring (Irish).
I'm only quoted it because it encapsulates what a vague and woolly word 'nice' actually is. It means everything and nothing.

I'm not ascribing just one characteristic to someone. Indeed, the reverse if anything. I don't think niceness is what we look for in people. We like an edge to people just as we like salt or sour as well as sweet. I would never, for instance, describe you as 'nice'. You are enormously kind and generous and courteous, but you - and this is crucial - also have far too much of the cünt for me ever to describe you as 'nice'.* And that's as it should be.


*This is a compliment