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Fine Things Quotes

I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.' Do you know what they fought about?' said I. No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy... Anna Sewell
John Steinbeck quote: "It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to..."
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. John Steinbeck
Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing can be a fine thing according to our opinion. Why? Because anyone who wants to dance the tightrope will be alone, and I can get together a stronger body of people to say there is nothing fine about it. Blaise Pascal
William Morris Hunt quote: "You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples."
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. William Morris Hunt
People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in its true sense, that of originality in thought and action, though no one says that it is not a thing to be admired, nearly all, at heart, think that they can do very well without it. Unhappily this is too natural to be wondered at. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they? If they could see what... John Stuart Mill
That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do. Neal Stephenson
Larry, wouldn't it be a fine thing, a swell thing, a boon to the community of man and to all creatures great and small, if this girl's soul was as ripe and stunning as her ass. Tom Robbins
Very well, I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but...two and two make five is also a very fine thing too. Fyodor Dostoevsky
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad. Francis Lockier
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. David Herbert Lawrence
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel. Richard Brautigan
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings? probably even on polar expeditions. Thomas Mann
John Keats quote: "We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we..."
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. John Keats
After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty damned long too, without our just desserts! Vincent Price

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