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 (18851972)
“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 (18731947)
“Well, a fine opinion he must have of me, if he thinks Id go to any man without a proper fortune. And this you may tell your Mr. Party of the First Part, that when I wed whatevers my own goes with me.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
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