Famous quotes containing the words fine, structure and/or constant:
“... there is nothing so sad as lack of fine manners in a gentleman, except the lack of them in a lady.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)
“The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)