Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

    It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine—something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

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

    But this fully answered John’s purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by again repeating that learning was a fine thing for a man but ‘twas both useless and blameworthy for a woman either to write or read.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)