Fine Quotes - Page 33

• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Women, Dragons

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.314

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Italian

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Bird, Fine Feathers, Feathers

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10

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• The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Writing, Order

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Play, Giving

  John Forster, George Henry Lewes (1896). “Dramatic Essays”

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• Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.

  John L. Lewis

  Children, Race, Israel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

  Blake Lively

  Heaven, Needs, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Games, People

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Italian, Sound

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

  Mindy Kaling

  Want, Might, Life Is

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Book, Slave

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• Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Giving, Form

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• There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Texture, Chance

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• One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

  Jean Tinguely

  Art, School, Complexity

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

  Amor Towles

  Blue, Missing, Finishing

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Fire

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

  Walter Lippmann

  Running, Children, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.143, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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• Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Woe, Thread

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.97, Stanford University Press

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• Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Precious Stones, World

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• You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Philosophy, Waiting, May

  Bertolt Brecht (1960). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey”

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• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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