Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

    When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The grave’s a fine and private place,
    But none, I think, do there embrace.
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    As to honour—you know—it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)