Fine Things Quotes

72 quotes by 65 authors

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
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the… — Sandra Boynton
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
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. — John Keats
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de la Bruyere
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 â€“ 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
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first… — George Eliot
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
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left.… — Kathleen Winsor

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