Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

    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 (1873–1947)

    Yet when the houre of thy designe
    To answer these fine things shall come,
    Speak not at large, say, I am thine;
    And then they have their answer home.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)