Fair Quotes

2223 Fair quotes by 1579 unique authors

Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that… — Oscar Wilde
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash. — Charles Dickens
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the… — Thomas Carlyle
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. — Walter Scott
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of… — Richard Crashaw
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. — Robert Burns
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or… — William Shenstone
Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair… — Heinrich Heine
As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion. — Heinrich Heine
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. — Thomas Love Peacock
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of… — Odell Shepard
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. — Homer
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. — Walter Bagehot
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books… — Abraham Cowley
I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives. — Jackie Mason
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He… — Robert Greene
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on… — Thomas Gray
Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far. — Arthur Godfrey
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn… — John Fletcher
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly?… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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