Famous quotes containing the word finest:
“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
“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 They appear but as the fashions of past days,mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.”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 (18171862)
“A man renowned for repartee
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendships finest feeling,
Will thrust a dagger at your breast,
And say he wounded you in jest,
By way of balm for healing.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
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