Famous quotes containing the word finer:
“The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,—mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“Nay sure, he’s not in hell; he’s in Arthur’s bosom, if ever
man went to Arthur’s bosom. ‘A made a finer end, and went
away an it had been any christom child.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)