Fine Things Quotes

• We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

  John Keats

  Book, Experience, Gone

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness". Book by David Bender, p. 213, 2000.

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• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  Sandra Boynton

  Fun, Memories, Women

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Bravery, Fine

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Pleasure, Criticize

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Honesty, Truth

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

  Georges Bernanos

  Pride, Order, Excellence

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.224, Da Capo Press

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• Say it isn't true
  That there always has been and always will be war
  Say it isn't true
  And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for
  Say it isn't true
  There always has been and always will be war

  Jackson Browne

  War, Men, Has Beens

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• It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Impossible, Fine

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937”

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• There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Fall, Feel Better

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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Voting, Democracy

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• It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

  Francis Kilvert

  Men, Climbing, Mountain

  W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 29 May 1871

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• We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rights, Talking, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Birth, Ancestor

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• Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

  Voltaire

  Hands, Firsts, Revolution

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• It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, House, Decision

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• What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

  Theresa Villiers

  Devil, Plot, Fine

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• For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, School, Soul

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• The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Writing, Shining, Pleasure

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• Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Justice, Pay, Fine

  1707 Crispin rival de son ma|"tre, pt.9.

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• Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Speech, Hearing, Convenience

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

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• They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Loneliness, Party, Sky

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.44, Chicago Review Press

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