"He is not good enough for 'ee.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“Because he is not good enough,” I said brutally.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

"But if I am wrong, it is hardly disloyalty to him to say that he is not good enough for you."
— from The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus

“If he is a thousand times all she thinks him, he is not good enough for Hope,” she told herself proudly.
— from The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

My own health is now good, except some rheumatic feeling in the legs.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Intoxicating hemp is now grown everywhere, especially in the Nkommi country, and little packages, neatly bound with banana leaves, sell on the river for ten sous each.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Hirst is not good enough, Peel and Briggs are past their prime, and Wainwright on good wickets is harmless.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

But as a servant of holy Truth, I say to you that harshness is not good, even when used towards one who deceives, because gentleness might perhaps bring him to repent of his deceit; and I say also, Padre, that in your words there is not the spirit of our true and; only Father, to whom be all glory!”
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

There is a pulse in everything he writes: his is no galvanised existence.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

The chaperon, who now politely prevails with us in almost her European numbers, was here in no greater evident force; but gray-haired fathers and uncles and elderly friends much more abounded; and they looked as if they were not altogether bent upon a vicarious day's pleasure.
— from London Films by William Dean Howells

Madam, he is not good enough for you, but he is all the world to me.
— from Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon