Fair Quotes

2223 Fair quotes by 1579 unique authors

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. — John Suckling
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's… — Thomas Otway
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul,… — Edmund Waller
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me! — Katharine Tynan
To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe… — John Keats
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. — Seneca the Younger
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife. — Euripides
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;… — Simone de Beauvoir
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. — Sophocles
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their… — Alistair Cooke
Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary. — Henry A. Kissinger
I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors. — John Lyly
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will… — Hannah Arendt
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication… — Steve Garvey
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price

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