Famous quotes containing the word fine:
“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or ones fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.... A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectuallythat is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
“Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)