Fine

Famous quotes containing the word fine:

“O
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
Can tickle where she wounds!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a cat
Tawny, reluctant, royal. He is fat
And fine this morning. Definite. Reimbursed.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)