Quotes about Fine

There were sharp little blows in the music, and waves of quick, fine notes that burst and rolled like the thin, clear ringing of broken glass. There were slow notes, as if the cords of the violins trembled in hesitation, tense with the fullness of sound, taking a few measured steps before the leap into the explosion of laughter.

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.