Famous quotes containing the word fine:
“Why the ghosts of poor old dead Romans should be dragged in every time a man eats an oyster, I dont see. Were as fine specimens as they were. I swear I shant let any old turned-to-clay Lucullus outlive me, even if Ive never eaten a lamprey.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.”
—James Fenton (b. 1949)
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