Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

    Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living—in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    ... that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people’s hardships picturesque ...
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)