Fine Quotes

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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's… — Dar Williams
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a… — Katherine Mansfield
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. — Neil Gaiman
I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington. — Christina Stead
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing. — Mary Astell
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart… — Dean Koontz
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which… — Washington Irving
It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go. — Julia Sweeney
It seems to me that love, if fine, is essentially a discipline. — William Butler Yeats
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look… — Charles Dickens
Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it. — Roald Dahl
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. — Gautama Buddha
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with… — Gautama Buddha
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein
Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's… — Edward Taylor
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within… — Hafez
What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the… — Unknown Author
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a… — Julia Serano
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop… — Unknown Author
I crammed my exams in London and did fine. — Rhona Mitra
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as… — Meghan Daum
But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a… — Crispin Glover

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