Finer

Famous quotes containing the word finer:

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Nay sure, he’s not in hell; he’s in Arthur’s bosom, if ever
man went to Arthur’s bosom. ‘A made a finer end, and went
away an it had been any christom child.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,—mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)