Fine Thing Quotes

55 Fine Thing quotes by 52 unique authors

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is… — J. William Fulbright
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. — William Morris Hunt
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. — Minnie Maddern Fiske
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. — John Muir
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot… — James Fenton
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem… — D. H. Lawrence
Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long… — Annie Lennox
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine… — Lois Lowry
Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High. — Libba Bray
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon… — Hermann Hesse
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on… — Thomas Mann
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow;… — Thomas Hardy
Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep… — John Flanagan
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. — Erich Segal
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead… — Edward Eager
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our… — Jane Austen
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. — John Steinbeck
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. — Elbert Hubbard
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it. — Alain-Rene Lesage

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