There was a lad was born in Kyle, But what na day o' what na style. I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin.

-Burns, Robert
  'There was a lad', or 'Rantin' Rovin' Robin', stanza1.

Nice guys finish last.

-Durocher, Leo
  When asked if he regretted beating the NewYork Giants, who had been described as a'nice bunch of guys'. He later used this as a book title,1975.

A change is always nice.

-Euripides
Orestes, l.234 (translated by M L  West,1987).

Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  Of Edmund Burke. Retaliation, l.29^32.

   Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right† I want it that way.

-Iverson, Allen
c.1914  Note to the copyist of  The Fourth of  July.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there.You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

-James, Henry
  Nanda Brookenham. The Awkward  Age, bk.6, ch.3.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are.You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
  Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.

   Porque, s |¤ , fuera de la celda esta¤  n nuestros opresores, pero adentro no. Aqu |¤ nadie oprime a nadie. Lo  u¤ nico que hay, de perturbador, para mi mente†cansada, o condicionada o deformada†es que alguien me quiere tratar bien, sin pedir nada a cambio. Because, well, outside of this cell we may have our oppressors, yes, but not inside.Here no one oppresses the other. The only thing that seems to disturb me† because I'm exhausted, or conditioned, or perverted†is that someone wants to be nice to me, without asking anything back for it.

-Puig, Manuel
  El beso de la mujer aran‹  a, ch.11 (translated as Kiss of the SpiderWoman,1978).

   Sempre que os homens sabidos lhe diziam palavras dif|¤ceis, ele sa|¤a logrado. Sobressaltava-se escutando-as. Evidentemente so¤   serviam para encobrir ladroeiras. Mas eram bonitas. Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words.Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.

-Ramos, Graciliano
  Vidas secas (translated as Barren Lives,1965),'Contas'.

All the nice people were poor; at least, that was a general axiom, the best of the rich being poor in spirit.

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
  The Girls of Slender Means, ch.1.

A nice girl should only fall in love once in her life.

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
  The Girls of Slender Means, ch.2.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Thoughts onVarious Subjects (enlarged edn).