Fine Quotes - page 2

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap. (Alexander Suvorov)
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. View quote
Henry James
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. View quote
John Ruskin
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. View quote
Steven Wright
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! View quote
Robert Browning
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. View quote
Joseph Roux
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. View quote
William F. Buckley
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. (Jim Morrison)
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! View quote
Karl Kraus
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. View quote
Havelock Ellis
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. View quote
Matthew Henry
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. View quote
Molière
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. View quote
Winston Churchill
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. (Joseph Conrad)
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit. View quote
Buster Keaton
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found. View quote
William James