"Good for you" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Good for you, Beatrix! But Thayer is a gentleman first of all, then an artist. A cad always shows himself at a strange club; but Thayer passed muster at The Critic, where even ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... more than is good for you. Abstinence on Fridays—a regular confession and holy communion and holy mass on Sundays will help to keep you ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... down from vestibule to FLYNN.) Well, keep your eye on something else, if you know what's good for you. (Takes badge out ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... that it would have been no earthly good for you two," continued Sebright. "That's the point I made. If O'Brien knows anything, he knows you are on board this ship. He reckons on it as a dead certainty. Now, it is very evident that we could refuse to give you up, Mr. Kemp, and that the admiral (if the flagship's off Havana, as I think she must ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... it's as good for you!" exclaimed the landlord. "If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that. And what was he saying ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... thought of love or finery. The enclosed recommendation of Madame Dupont, the elder, will tell you more. You are in equal luck with a cook. I have had him on trial a fortnight, and he is the best I ever had in the house; for cakes, pastry, and jimcracks, far superior to Anthony. In short, he is too good for you, and I have a great mind not to send him; you will be for ever giving good dinners. He has something of the manner and phisiognomy of Wood, your teacher. M'lle la femme de chambre and Monsieur le Cuisinier are both pure French (not creole), and speak well the language. ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... won't know it, poor devil. He is a thousand times too good for you. That's why he is going to make the mistake of his life ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... flatteries are all nonsense," she wrote; "the young lady's far too good for you, mauvais sujet beyond redemption. If you've a particle of conscience you'll not come and disturb the repose of an angel ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James
... rubbers and struggling into a heavier sweater. "The snow hasn't all melted, and there will be enough for a good coast. I think you're a lazy bunch to want to stay cooped up in here and knit. A little fresh air would be good for you, Norma." ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... mind poetry so much; but of prose I will read as much to you as will be good for you. Come, let us have ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... think you've read more than is good for you. I think you are half mad, Tamar; but think what you may, it must be done. Have not you read of straining at gnats and swallowing camels? You used not, I've heard, to be always ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... scrambled to his feet exclaiming, 'No! Rivets!' as though he couldn't believe his ears. Then in a low voice, 'You... eh?' I don't know why we behaved like lunatics. I put my finger to the side of my nose and nodded mysteriously. 'Good for you!' he cried, snapped his fingers above his head, lifting one foot. I tried a jig. We capered on the iron deck. A frightful clatter came out of that hulk, and the virgin forest on the other bank of the creek sent it back in a thundering roll upon the sleeping station. ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... said the man. "You know nothing at all about it. What do you know of ships, or what's good for you? Hey? You don't ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... it was not I who thought so, nor Graeme. But Harry said you were admired more than was good for you, perhaps, and—" ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... have been racked and you have longed. Keep your heart up, and you'll do. Tell that to your mother, if you are still in any danger or suffering. And by the way, if you are at all like me - and I tell myself you are very like me - be sure there is only one thing good for you, and that is the sea in hot climates. Mount, sir, into 'a little frigot' of 5000 tons or so, and steer peremptorily for the tropics; and what if the ancient mariner, who guides your frigot, should startle the silence of the ocean with the cry of land ho! - say, when the day is ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... what herself is saying, you to be quitting the world as it seems, it is as good for you make over to her your crock ...
— New Irish Comedies • Lady Augusta Gregory
... "Good for you, Brother Baldwin," he said. "You and I have had our differences, but you have said the ...
— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle
... of battle and peril you apply without dilution to your soul, and you wonder what the effect will be. The other men think of other men, and of home, and of a thousand things. You will be all right in battle. I predict that the excitement of battle will be good for you, sir; it will force you out ...
— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson
... "Good for you, Bobby!" commented Skipper Ed, looking the carcass over. "I never killed as big a bear as ...
— Bobby of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace
... you are so fond of calling yourself—you shall be such, some day, that the best and highest in the land will be only too proud to be your humble friends and followers; no woman is too good for you—only one good enough! and she loves you: of that I feel sure—and it is impossible you should not love ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... "Good for you, little girl! You're a trump. You're a great deal better than your father. Do you know where ...
— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.
... the latter's face turn pale and a shiver run through his form. A feeling of sympathy came over Kniepp and he asked warmly: "Won't you take a glass of this wine? If you have been out in the cold it will be good for you." His tone was gentle, almost cordial, but the man to whom he offered the refreshment turned from him with a gesture that ...
— The Case of the Golden Bullet • Grace Isabel Colbron, and Augusta Groner
... "Good for you, Frank!" exclaimed the other; but Bob understood the nature of the risk they were taking, and he was not quite so buoyant ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... pretty good for you, watch. However, there are some folk who are not as good as they ought to be, let ...
— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed
... finish filling that bag as I direct. Put in the packages yourself. I like to watch you work, captain, it's good for you, and after you fill the bag and pass it to me I'm going to hand the ship back to you. I've never really liked her, and I mean to resign the command. I think Peter Smith is ...
— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler
... "Good for you, Ned, you have my best wishes," said Houston, shaking hands with his friend, "but really, you and Lyle had seemed so fond of each other's society lately, that I thought perhaps it was to be your destiny to rescue ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... "Good for you. I'll appoint you first lieutenant. I guess that nurse is all right, though she doesn't seem to be ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... "Good for you," cried the mayor delightedly; "you'll be a big drawing card, especially the young ladies. I never heard of gals flyin', although, come to think of ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham
... an approving glance. "Good for you, boy. Never take money you've not earned. Good day to you, sir"—he touched his cap. "And"—with a motion toward the ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... be far more cruel to leave me here," his wife answered earnestly. "I could be happy anywhere if you were your old natural self once more. Millie and I can both see that struggling alone and brooding by yourself over your troubles is not good for you," and her gentle but determined purpose ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... send for me? But it was quite right, whether you sent or no. Of course I should come when I heard it. It cannot be good for you to ...
— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope
... whiskered countenance. "Good for you, old top," she responded, cheerfully. "You ought to go into the Sunday puzzle department. You'd be hung all over with gold-filled watches. Where did you ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... is," said Pamela, starting up again. "Why shouldn't it be as much good for you as for any one? If you want to be good—and I think you are good, Diana—you can't help praying to God. For all the good comes from Him. That's what Grandmamma told us. And He puts little bits of His ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... court-yard when I fell to shivering, my teeth clicking like castanets. Lady Morley-Frere, seeing my plight, held out a silver flask, and from the depths of her cloak growled out, "Drink, drink! 'Twill set you right in a trice. 'Tis hot and spiced, and good for you." I obeyed her. I had hardly swallowed it before a delicious warmth stole over me, and every nerve tingled with pleasure. I sank back into the cushions revived—exalted! Then I fell asleep. Oh, the shame of it! The shame of it! A thousand curses upon ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... wear that morning but which happened to be stowed away in a cabin trunk. He told Hobbs to go to the devil and Hobbs repeated the injunction, with especial heat, to the boots, when he bumped his head in hauling them out of the trunk. Whereupon R. Schmidt said to Hobbs: "Good for you. Hobbs. Go on, please. Don't mind me. It was quite a thump, wasn't it?" And Hobbs managed, between other words, to say that it was a whacking thump, and one he would not forget to his dying day— (if ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... would not at all be good for you, for instance, whenever you were washing your faces, and braiding your hair, to be thinking of the shapes of the jawbones, and of the cartilage of the nose, and of the jagged sutures ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... "Good for you, my Irish Pat," said Frank; "but, do you know, I like them better this way. There's an attraction about that general conglomeration that appeals to me more strongly than those over-neat concoctions that look as if they had sat in a ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... "Good for you, Billy Button!" called out Josh. "That makes seven, and we only need one more name. Horace, are you going to see this grand scheme fall through for lack of just a single name? Your sig would look mighty good to ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster
... said the burglar, with a grin; "but it just socked me one, too. It's good for you that rheumatism and me happens to be old pals. I got it in my left arm, too. Most anybody but me would have popped you when you wouldn't hoist ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... felt that he was under criticism. Barbour's eyes looked him up and down; there was almost a challenge in his glance, as though he said, "We are quite ready to receive you if you are one of us. But you must move with the times. It's no good for you to be the same as in the old days. We've all changed, and so ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... something better. Now don't misunderstand in another way! I'd rather die a thousand deaths than wrong you. I ask nothing from you for myself. When I knew that you were safe I'd go, and not even see you again, unless—but how can I explain that I mean only good for you, with no evil or selfishness, ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Carolina. I see you think this place too expensive from its looks—too good for us. But I tell you the best, even this, isn't too good for you girls and your dad. Run away, and I'll come up ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... 'Is incest not enough? And must there be adultery too? Grace after meat? Miscreant and Liar! 480 Thief! Blackguard! Scoundrel! Fool! hell-fire Is twenty times too good for you. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... She'd have taken you in half the time to the outer beaches, and saved your legs," said the caustic speaker. "But exercise is good for you, I ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... civility to listen to me when I am endeavouring to put you on your legs. I am sure I think about nothing else, morning, noon, and night, and yet I never get a decent word from you. Marian is too good for you; that's ...
— Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica • Anthony Trollope
... come to an unhealthy spot; still it may be good for you. The blessed Huns thought they were going to break through here about last September when the battle of Wipers was fought. They had six hundred thousand men to our hundred and fifty thousand. Then that blooming Kaiser made up his mind that he would break through our lines, ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking
... Freddy!" Lane shouted, seizing the nearest of his assailants by the neck and throwing him out into the darkness. "To hell with you!" he added, just escaping a murderous blow and driving his fist into the face of the man who had aimed it. "Good for you, Hunterleys! There isn't one of those old guns of theirs that'll go ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... guest humorously—a bit maliciously. "It is good for you, you complacent benedict," he remarked unsympathetically. "You can understand now the normal state of mind of bachelors. Perhaps after a few more days you'll have been tortured enough to retract the argument you made to me about matrimony. I repeat, it's poetic justice, and good for ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge
... this, Elfie, because you know that I am right, and that I only want what is good for you. I want you to be happy, to open your heart to the kindness we wish to show you, and to encourage feelings of kindness in yourself towards other people. When you feel hard, and cross, and disobliging, try to remember what I have been saying, and let me help. ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... done," said Macleod, quite simply, "for she thinks it keeps me at home. But a young man cannot always stay at home. It is very good for you, Ogilvie, ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... to friends in every stead; * Indeed to all dear friends do I incline: Salams, but not salams that bid adieu; * Salams that growth of good for you design: I love you dear, indeed, nor less your land, * But bide I far from every ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... "Good for you, Brill. He's ce'tainly got an A-one rep. as a cattle detective, and likewise as a man hunter. When is ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... let me buy you some," thought the Major. "I should like to see any that were too good for you." ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... so? Now I am quite sure you have been more severely hurt than you imagine, and that my talking so much is not good for you." ...
— My Doggie and I • R.M. Ballantyne
... out of here!" screamed the quarter-breed. "And, if you know what's good for you, you'll forget that you've seen ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... "Good for you, Captain!" said Tom. "That's exactly what my father said. And now, have you your equipment handy? If it's not too heavy we can load it aboard the plane right away. Oh, and I want to introduce my good friend here, ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... "Good for you, Flossy Flouncy!" cried King, and the nickname so suited the pretty, dainty little girl, that it ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells
... thinking of the commandment itself, and how to carry it out most perfectly, and let the consequences take care of themselves, because you know that your Father takes care of them; that He loves you, and therefore what He commands must be good for you, utterly the best thing for you; that He only gives you a commandment because it is good for you; that you are made in God's image, and therefore God's will must be for you the path of life, the only rule by which you can ...
— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley
... "Good for you, Cecil!" called out another young woman from, the broad hammock in which she had been dawdling with half-alert ears through the foregoing conversation. "Spoken like a true Briton. ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... shoulders, Teddy lad," grunted McInnes, and Teddy nipped up and began hacking at the chevaux de frise with his axe. "That's av ut, bhoys," yelled the Irish sergeant again. "Lave them spoikes an' go for the stockade. Good for you, little man—whirro!" Nat by this time was on a comrade's back, and using his axe for dear life; one of twenty men hacking, ripping, tearing down the wooden stakes. But it was Teddy who wriggled through ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... sailor. I work hard. The captain has a double awning, and drinks beer out of long bottles. I have never seen him haul a rope or pull an oar. He gets one hundred and fifty dollars a month. I am a sailor. He is a navigator. Master, I think it would be very good for you to know navigation." ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... better than we do what is good for us. If we ask Him for something that is not good for us, He does not give it, but something better still, if only we will continue to pray earnestly and do not run away and lose our trust in Him. God did not think what you have been praying for was good for you just now; but be sure He heard you, for He can hear and see every one at the same time, because He is a God and not a human being like you and me. And because He thought it was better for you not to have at once ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... "It is not good for you to be sitting moping at home every evening. I have often wondered before that you did not take a walk on deck before you turned in. I always used to ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty
... the foremen, brought up the rear of the next platoon to enter. He caught sight of Mr. Smith and shouted: "Oh, Mr. Smith: good for you. I'm ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... the feelin' you have for me, when I thought you'd be a guard an' a projection to me? You know I have the money, you sconce, an' how comfortable it 'ud keep us, if you'd only see what's good for you. You blarnied an' palavered me, you villain, till you gained my infections an' thin you tuck the cholic as an excuse to lave me in a state of dissolution an' disparagement. You promised to marry me, an' you had no notion ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... you, thinking to pick a fight with a little feller like that!" said the man, scooping up another shovelful of snow as he talked. "Why, if you were my boy, bread and water for a week would be too good for you. Take that, you little bully!" And down came another shower of ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White
... expostulation and pleading. "What has come over you? You must not stay away; it would be so unkind to me, so rude to everybody, and such a marked slight. We are all so happy when you come to Welby Square, and I am sure the change is good for you too. How can you ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler
... been the best servant man ever had. If you are innocent of these crimes, you can clear yourself. If you are guilty, a dog's death is none too good for you." ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... said James Starr, "I can well understand the hesitation you feel; but it will be good for you to go with us. Those who love you are taking you, and they will bring you back again. Afterwards you will be free, if you wish it, to continue your life in the coal mine, like old Simon, and Madge, and Harry. But at least you ought ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... Improvement. A desire arises. Now think whether this would be good for you. If it is not, use your Will Power to kill out the desire, but, on the other hand, if it is a righteous desire, summon all your Will Power to your aid, crush all obstacles that confront you and secure possession of the ...
— The Power of Concentration • Theron Q. Dumont
... "Good for you! Yes, and we are going to keep her in this pretty cage till we can both fly off together. I say, Jill, where shall we be in our classes when we do get back?" and Jack's merry face ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott
... it. But they're good for you. They keep your red-headed doctor master of the situation. You want him ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond
... gently. "I knew Babe had been saying something hateful; but it's only her way. Mrs. Farrington wants you to have a good time, and I'm so glad you are going. Three weeks in New York will be good for you, and you will see ever so much. Just think how lonely we are going to be without you and Archie!" Her ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... have no doubt it will all come even in the end and you will get your share of troubles, like others. Perhaps Mrs. Arbuthnot will have no children as there is so much for them to take. Or perhaps you will lose all your money and have to work for your living, which might be good for you. Or," he added, still thinking aloud after his fashion, "perhaps she will die young—she has that kind of face, although, of course, I hope she ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... "listeners never hear any good of themselves" was, he declared, a most ridiculous aphorism. "You overhear persons talking and you listen. Very well. It may chance that you hear yourself abused. What then? Nothing can be so good for you as such abuse; the instruction given is twofold; it warns you against foes whom you have perhaps considered friends, and it tones down any overweening conceit you may have had concerning your own importance or ability. ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... "Good for you!" cried Mr. Abercrombie. "You're a smart little girl, and a good speller. I'll take all the macaroons ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... hear what you say about the fencing school, Guy; it will be good for you to have such training. And indeed 'tis well that you should have some employment, for time would hang but wearily on your hands were you to remain long caged up here. I shall be very glad for you to go. It will make no difference to us ...
— At Agincourt • G. A. Henty
... never once put a sleuth over the back trail to throw the spot light on my past life," Skinski babbled on. "You're the first white man that ever took a chance with me without lashing me to the medicine ball, and I'll make good for you, all ...
— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh
... "Good for you," breathed Ned. "You are the right sort, even if you are weak. I always said you were. But did your father say he would get Tad ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... "Well, it isn't good for you to overwork, you know, Avery. I hate to think of it. And you have no one to take care of ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... "Good for you, Fred," said Harry; but Tom declared he couldn't see through allegories; and that fighting the "world" in that fashion didn't solve Yaspard's difficulty about his jolly game; and he turned to Yaspard for ...
— Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
... of Improved Tories, not as members, but as critics. It was they who induced the others to join the Fabian Society. "You can become subscribers ... that won't commit you to anything ... and then you'll be able to attend all the meetings and get all the publications. It'll be good for you!..." ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... "Good for you, Caddy!" said Charlie. "You've hit it; Morris can sing fast enough. Now, Morris, we'll sing, 'I love to go to Sunday-school,' and you sing your word instead of those. ...
— The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories • Various
... that you're invulnerable," she said, with a toss of her head. "Don't defy me, Mr Tristram. I don't mind telling you that it would be very good for you if ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... not be able to talk on any other subject than yourselves," retorted Weissmann, gallantly, "and that would not be good for you to hear." ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... up and down in your room," said Fanny. "You were doing it ever since dinner, and it seems to me you're at it almost every evening. I don't believe it's good for you—and I know it would worry your mother terribly ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... Jack," she said. "You—you've done me good. But it's not good for you, is it? I've made you quite damp. You don't think you'll catch cold?"—dabbing at his ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... have not yet known the meaning of danger, little man. Not until now. I ask you again, do you want to end like Hardy? They have not yet looped you in with all their big talk. That is why I came here tonight. If you know what is good for you, Murdock, you will make a break ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton
... rockers, and rocked me to stop my talking. When I was far back, he took the point of my chin in his two hands and lifted up my cheeks to be kissed, saying in his very kindest way, "It's not a bit too good for you—it's you all over." ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... to go somewhere. It can't be good for you to remain here. Indeed I shall think it wicked, or at any rate weak, if ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope
... your own mouth you stand condemned! It is quite charming for me; and for the rest—one accepts the unavoidable! But in sober prosaic truth, Michel, Elsie Mayhew is a great deal too good for you; and that nice Engineer boy, Mr Malcolm, is desperately in earnest about her, I have seen his whole heart in his eyes ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... said, "That is not good for you; for if I were to bestow upon you the gift of the knowledge of the tongue of animals, and you were to tell anyone of it, you would instantly die. Ask, therefore, for something else; whatever you desire to possess, I will give ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... me to give you up," she said to the lad; "but I have always known that it must be so, and indeed, for the last year I have seen little of you. The change will be good for you. You will learn the manner of war, and take an interest in the intrigues and troubles that are constantly going on, and of ...
— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty
... said Mrs. Smith at last, "and it's no good for you to keep coming here to see her. She will never come here again. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you don't look over and above respectable. Your coat is torn, your trousers are patched in a dozen places, and your boots are half off your feet—I ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... you smile. It is Waspe—W, a, s, p, e—not pretty, is it? But she is as sweet as she can be, and very accomplished, and Blanche gets on nicely with her. It will be much more interesting for Blanche to have some one to share her lessons with, and good for you too, ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no good for you to do.' ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... right, Harold. I had far rather that you rose at six and studied till nine, as formerly, than that you should dream away the morning hours, and come down looking as you do now. Forgive me, but it is not good for you, ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... to laugh at, Grace," she said; "and why do you mock me? I do not see that any position can be too high for you to fill, nor any man too good for you to have." ...
— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope
... "Good for you!" Cummings shouted joyfully. "We'll have a first-class supper now, with plenty to spare for breakfast. How did you manage to ...
— The Search for the Silver City - A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan • James Otis
... interrupted his companion, "that you would like very well to know the source of my information. Your memory is too good for you to forget that when I began last evening I told you that this narrative was for your ear alone, and that I had only one object in disclosing it—to aid our search. Why should you wish the judge of instruction to see these notes, which are ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... likely that I shall invite them—it would be good for you to have companions of your own class once more. But it will mean a great deal of extra work, and unless I can get someone to help me, I do not see ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... "'Tis good for you," said the kind-hearted woman once more. The schoolmaster, however, still writhed as if in great agony and looked at the woman with an expression that might have quieted the tongue of a less courageous woman than ...
— Scouting with Daniel Boone • Everett T. Tomlinson
... "Good for you, old girl! She's just what I need." And now he studied again the scene in which Kedzie took down the draught of bitter beer, and there was a superhuman vividness in the close-up, with its magnified details in which every ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... spent one summer near Lake Michigan and was a better oarsman than Ernest. The boat skimmed along smoothly. "Good for you, Sherm, you have a strong, even stroke," the ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... your history appears to a looker-on? I know it will be painful, but I think it will be good for you.' ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Nomkubulwana, yes, she and no other, had told me that all the spirits would be against him, and he hearkened. When next you think me wicked, remember that, Macumazahn. Now it is but a matter of time, and here you must bide till all is finished. That will be good for you who need rest, though the other two find it wearisome. Still for them it is good also to watch the fruit ripen on their tree of love. It will be the sweeter when they eat it, Macumazahn, and teach them how to live together. Oho! Oho-ho!" and ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... when we're gone?" said Ralph Hattersley. "Do you mean to turn from the error of your ways, and be a good husband, a good father, and so forth; as I do, when I get shut of you and all these rollicking devils you call your friends? I think it's time; and your wife is fifty times too good for you, you know—" ...
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte
... shrewd and safe, as I think you are, it may turn out to be both. It would be a good plan, though, to say to yourself every time you come up Franklin Street, 'I've toted potatoes up this hill, and not my own potatoes either.' It's good for you, sir, to ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... than I do you. I almost think —did I not remember what a bad boy you could be sometimes—that each one of you is too good for the other. But, Phil, if you should ever come to think that she is not too good for you, you will not be good enough for her. I can't think she is perfect, any more than you are perfect—you will find that she is just a woman—but there is nothing in all life so precious as such a heart as hers. You will come here, of course, and at once, whenever ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... a certain interest. "I am afraid you are really quite ill," she said, drawing a little nearer. "Please don't let me put you out, and do not stay under that table, Mr. Jimson. Indeed it cannot be good for you." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Myra, rather eagerly. "My brother taught me, even as a child, to wish nothing but good for you. I wish I knew only what I was ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... flows in a noble stream through the pages of fiction. Do not allow the elders to persuade you that pirate stories, battles, sieges, murders and sudden deaths, the road to transgression and the face of dishonesty are not good for you. They are 90 per cent. pure nutriment to a healthy boy's mind, and any other sort of boy ought particularly to read them and so learn the shortest cut to the penitentiary for the good of the world. Whenever you ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... bangs asked, trying to show his friendliness. "She ain't here now, but she'll be here soon. She's about due. Go on up and grab a box for yourselves. The house owes you fellers a drink, it seems to me. Can I send you up a bottle of Pumbry? The fizzy stuff's none too good for you, I guess." ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... "Good for you!" Whyn exclaimed. "You're the right kind of a scoutmaster to have. I shall tell that to Douglas when I ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... I had my horses," the doctor said, as at last they made their way down the aisle. "I have a mile's drive up town to take, and I think the exercise might be good for you." ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden
... to put yourself out of the way. He would be very glad of your company, and it will be very good for you all to ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Good for you, Mr. Curtis, senior," he crowed delightedly. "If Indiana knew what it really wanted it would run you ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... disinterested counsel, for I have told you more than once how much I prize your letters, and you know it is true. Still, I do not think my "wish is father to my thought" when I say that I think it is not good for you to lose entirely even such an interest as I am to you. I say "even such an interest," because I believe your trouble must have rendered me and my pursuits, for the present at least, less likely than they have been to occupy a place in your thoughts. But 'tis for you to decide; if my letters ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... eight-and-forty hours, interspersing his prescriptions with frequent tumblers of hot and steaming ammoniated quinine-and-water, getting down at the same time more beef tea, oysters, champagne, muffins, mince-pies, oranges, nuts, and whiskey than, under ordinary circumstances, you feel would be good for you. Continue the above treatment for a couple of months. This is what I am going to try, if I am down with it. As I said above, it is, if a little complicated, sure to be all right, for I have got every item of it from a careful perusal of those infallible guides and directors ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 • Various
... is no better exercise for the dancer than walking, and three miles a day is none too much. Take long deep breaths out of doors. Horseback riding, golf, tennis, all are good for you. Dancing itself is the best exercise you can have, but when you have a one-hour lesson or more, and then practice at home three or more hours daily you will find walking a rest, a relaxation, because it is ...
— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn
... "It would be so good for you to have something human and capable of a little consideration to go out with," added Bobus, "not to be tied to the tail of a will-of-the-wisp like that Elf-I should not like that ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Good for you, Tom!" cried Jack, extending his hand to meet Tom's in a hearty grip. "Those sentiments make me glad that you are a member of the Beaver Patrol. I wish they were ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson
... behind them any good for you? For the space of twelve years, an angelic woman stole two hours each day from the world, from the claims of family, from all the entanglements and hindrances of Parisian life—two hours to spend them beside me —without any one else's being aware of the fact; for twelve years! Do you ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd
... likely the call would be finished. 'Dear little Mrs. Le Breton,' he said to himself softly, 'dear little Miss Butterfly of the days that are dead; softened and sweetened still more by suffering, with the beauty of holiness glowing in your face, how I wish some good for you could unexpectedly come out of this curious visit. Though I don't see how it's possible: I don't see how it's possible. The stream carries us all down unresistingly before its senseless flood, and sweeps us at last, sooner or later, like helpless logs, into the unknown sea. Poor Ernest is drifting ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... little struggle in the mind of Giraffe as to whether the sportsman spirit, or the love of good feeding would prevail; but at last he also cried out: "I hope he gets it, too, sure I do! Good for you, Giraffe!" exclaimed Thad, perhaps purposely mistaking this for a spirit of fairness that would do the tall scout ...
— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter
... the townsmen of Gotham, Hearing your grace would come this way, Did think it good for you to stay.— But hear you, neighbours, bid somebody ring the bells.— And we are come to you ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... hearty laughter. "Good for you!" he cried. "When you're in Rome do as the Romans do. And you, Fairy of the golden curls. Are you going ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... Mendelssohn's had a horrid effect upon my nerves; I mean the emotion and distress it caused me. I suffered a great deal of pain, and was quite unwell for several days after it. Will it not be a pity if I can't come and be spoilt any more by you and Dorothy at St. Leonard's? It was so pleasant and good for you. ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... the answer, given almost genially. "Like the elixir which doesn't taste pleasant, it's good for you. You didn't know, either, for the same reason, that not long ago Tom was badly scared for fear he'd have to let the whole thing go for lack of money. It would have been the end of Julius Savine if he had been forced to give up this ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... you with a curious fitness, and suits you more and more every year. I am afraid it is not very good for you. I don't mean for your morals; I don't care the least about them, I am a dog of the world; I mean for your manners. It makes you slangy, inert, rude, lazy. And yet what perfect gentlemen you can be still, and what grace ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... "Good for you, sonny," came a quiet voice from beyond the group. "Your geography is correct. And you might add for the education of your people that Alaska is only thirty-seven miles from Bolshevik Siberia, and wireless messages are sent into Alaska by the Bolsheviks urging our ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood |
