Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“All the rest is mere fine writing.”
—Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)

“O
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
Can tickle where she wounds!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)