Fine Quotes - Page 39

• There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Fun, Book

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

  Angie Harmon

  Confused, Believe, Thinking

  "Part Two: Angie Harmon Defends Bristol Palin's Pregnancy, Says GOP Is More Understanding" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Jewelry is fine on some guys, but it's not for me.

  Ross Kemp

  Guy, Jewelry

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• I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Hate, Damage Control, People

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• I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.

  Suki Waterhouse

  Hair, Amazon, Gone

  "Suki Waterhouse Rinses Her Hair With Coca-Cola: Find Out Why!" by Candace Amos and Brody Brown, www.usmagazine.com. March 20, 2015.

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• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  Fanny Kemble

  Death, Horse, Would Be

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21

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• All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Prayer, Sublime

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 419), 1895.

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• In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Study, Fine Arts

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1094, Delphi Classics

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• If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

  Horace

  Dresses, Ifs

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• A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

  George Eliot

  Squirrels, Air, Delicacy

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• A woman mixed of such fine elements
  That were all virtue and religion dead
  She'd make them newly, being what she was.

  George Eliot

  Women, Elements, Virtue

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

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• The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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• Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

  Jonathan Swift

  Plato, Pride, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.554

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• Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Lying, Book, Giving

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• Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

  Plautus

  Mud, Manners, Garments

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• Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

  Moliere

  Diction, Purpose, Speech

  "The Learned Ladies (Act II, Scene 6)". Book by Moliere, March 11, 1672.

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• It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sex, Artist, Giving

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• Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Presence Of Mind, Talent

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• We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Extravagance, Poverty

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293

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• That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Source, Benevolence, Nile

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• What a fine-looking thing is war!
  Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Song, War, Gold

  Douglas William Jerrold (1846). “The Chronicles of Clovernook: With Some Account of the Hermit of Bellyfulle”, p.142

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

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