Fine Quotes - Page 28

• All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

  Horace

  Men, Opinion, Admire

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

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• High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Art, Finance, Burglary

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• Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Two, Waiting

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• In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

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• All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

  William Shakespeare

  Crowns, Ends, Renown

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.159

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• O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Pride

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• The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Mind, Example

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.183

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• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Sublime

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• It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.

  Dave Barry

  Taken, Brain, Groups

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• We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Able, England, Insult

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1053, Wordsworth Editions

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• Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Mind, Spun

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Long, Musical

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281

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• California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

  William J. Clinton

  Race, California, Hopeful

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• I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Giving, Four

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• A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

  Mark Helprin

  Law, Cities, Promise

  "Always carry a bin bag" by Jemima Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

  Eli Siegel

  Secret, World, Stuff

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• Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

  Samuel Richardson

  Friendly, Veins, May

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• It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.

  Herbert Spencer

  Beauty, Perfection, May

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• Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

  Bryan Procter

  Mother, Wall, Wine

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• I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

  Ben Stein

  Stars, Real, Men

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• Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, World, Nuance

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• In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.

  Paul Klee

  Nature, Children, People

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

  Queen Victoria

  Dog, Pride, Animal

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• At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Distance, Perspective, Ordinary

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