Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

“To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered . . .”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“Well, a fine opinion he must have of me, if he thinks I’d go to any man without a proper fortune. And this you may tell your Mr. Party of the First Part, that when I wed whatever’s my own goes with me.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)