F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.”
“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.”
Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art
“Fine conduct is always spontaneous.”
“Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are”
“Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear”
“Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
“Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.”
“Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.”
“Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.”
“Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”
Source: The Padlock, etc
“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.”
“Fine. Fine. Let’s try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A person does not exist. There are no people.”
Source: Paradox Love
“Fine, fine, you just stay at home, read yer book–”
He stops himself suddenly. “Oh, damn, sorry, no, I didn’t mean that. I forgot.”
And the weird thing is, he seems sincere.
There’s a moment of quiet where his Noise pulses again with that strong feeling he’s hiding–
That something he’s trying to bury that makes him feel–
And then he says, “You know . . .” and I can see the offer coming and I don’t think I can bear it, I don’t think I could live another minute if he says it out loud. “If you ever wanted me to read it for–”
“No, Davy,” I say quickly. “No, thanks, no.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.”
“Well, the offer’s there.” His Noise goes bright again, blooming as he thinks about his new title, about women, about me and him as brothers.
And he whistles happily all the way back to town.”
Source: The Ask and the Answer
“Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.”
“Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.”
“Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.”
“Fine. Fuck him, then kill him if that's what you have to do," Phoebe said. "But he needs to be killed."
"Aren't you supposed to be the healer?" Brigid said. "Why don't you make yourself useful and get some bandages for our guest's gaping head wound.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“Fine. Go ahead. Intimidate me. I’ll insult you again, then you’ll run back to your office to lick your balls and strategize for the next round.”
Source: Dates I Love to Hate
“Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.”
“Fine has many definitions, and not one of them means everything is okay.”
Source: Fight By The Team
“Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Fine.” He smirks at me. “Nice to meet you, Carrots,” he says, looking directly at my hair. “Oh, I mean Clara.”
My face flames.
“Same to you, Rusty,” I shoot back, but he’s already striding away.”
Source: Unearthly
“Fine. Here is the damn poem about myself: I am terrified. I am learning how to accommodate that.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“Fine," I growled. "You win. I'll help you."
"Thank you."
"Seriously? You threatened my family if I didn't agree. I don't really think thank you covers it."
He pressed his lips together and shrugged. "Manners never killed anyone.”
Source: XODUS
“Fine. I hate that word. One of the most useless words in the dictionary. It's the typical non-answer to everyone's favorite non-question, "How are you?" Just a totally empty word that says absolutely nothing.”
Source: Caterpillars Can't Swim
“Fine. I’ll leave the hammering to you." "Good." "That wasn’t a sex joke." "It should have been.”
Source: Her Halloween Treat
“Fine, I’ll live. Just give me time to fill the void you left.”
Source: The Muse
“Fine, I'll teach you,'
'Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.”
Source: Finding Sky
“Fine. I will tell you a story. But you won't like it. And it will make you cry.”
Source: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.”
Source: Chivalry's Code
“Fine jewellery reflects a prestigious taste in quality preferences.”
“Fine manners and dignity are taught by the heart, not the dancing master.”
Source: The Idiot
“Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.”
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.”
Source: Psalm LXXIX to CIII
“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.”
“Fine. No more carelessly tossing people out through the gate."
"And more sword fights!" Kaden yelled.”
Source: The Heir
“Fine. Now get lost."
"Well, that was certainly rude." Regan blew her hair out of her eyes as Rafe carted her down the hall and into the kitchen.
"You're an only child, right?"
"Yes, but ---"
"Figured.”
Source: The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared
“Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”
“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.”
Source: Iced
“Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Fine people on both sides? I was disgusted.
Here was the same man I’d gone on television to defend when I believed it was appropriate. While I hadn’t been a supporter at the start of his campaign, he’d eventually convinced me he could be an effective president. Trump had proved to be a disrupter of the status quo during the primary and general election. Especially when he began to talk about issues of concern to black Americans. Dems have taken your votes for granted! Black unemployment is the highest it’s ever been! Neighborhoods in Chicago are unsafe! All things I completely agreed with. But now he was saying, 'I’m going to change all that!' He mentioned it at every rally, even though he was getting shut down by the leaders of the African American community. And what amazed me most was that he was saying these things to white people and definitely not winning any points there either. I’d defended Trump on more than one occasion and truly believed he could make a tangible difference in the black community. (And still do.) I’d lost relationships with family members, friends, and women I had romantic interest in, all because I thought advocating for some of his positions had a higher purpose.
But now the president of the United States had just given a group whose sole purpose and history have been based on hate and the elimination of blacks and Jews moral equivalence with the genuine counterprotesters. My grandfather was born and raised in Helena, Arkansas, where the KKK sought to kill him and other family members. You can imagine this issue was very personal to me. In Chicago, the day before Trump’s press conference, my grandfather and I had had a long conversation about Charlottesville, and his words to me were fresh in my mind.
So, yeah, I was hurt. Angry. Frustrated. Sad.”
Source: Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
“Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes
“Fine sermons have been preached on the text that those who have should share with those who
have not, but he who would act out this principle is speedily informed that these beautiful sentiments
are all very well in poetry, but not in practice. “To lie is to degrade and besmirch oneself,” we say, and
yet all civilized life becomes one huge lie. We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the
practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves
with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man.
But a society cannot live thus; it must return to truth or cease to exist.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread