Top 100 Fine Words Quotes
#1. Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#2. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi
#3. Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
Paulo Coelho
#4. There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott
#5. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#6. I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
George Eliot
#7. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.
Salley Vickers
#8. I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere
#10. Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius
#12. Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao-Tzu
#13. Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
Gautama Buddha
#14. Behave, Miss Greaves," he murmured under his breath, his voice husky and deep. "Fine words for a man who runs about St. Giles at night in a mask," she whispered. He frowned, glancing around. "Hush.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#15. Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#16. Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Jonathan Sacks
#18. It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Moliere
#19. There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come to you as a man unfinished.
Kresley Cole
#20. His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.
Ray Bradbury
#21. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.
Hermann Hesse
#22. Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
Paul McCartney
#23. There is a fine line between success and failure; both words translate into opportunities and challenges. Opportunities to be taken advantage of and challenges to be taken head on.
Dwaun S. Cox
#24. Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and
if at all possible
speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.
Nicole Brossard
#26. Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long as they're good words.
Nicholas Trandahl
#27. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
Merilyn Simonds
#28. You have a fine scholar's way with words, I must say. You're good at empty reasoning.
Soseki Natsume
#29. I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it.
Jenny Lawson
#30. How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?
Matthew Quick
#31. All right fine!" she snapped. "I'm in love with you. There. I said it. Now get over yourself."
"You know, I think those are the words written on the Taj Mahal: 'I said it. Now get over yourself.' Some of the greatest love stories have started with those words.
Shelly Laurenston
#32. You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...
Atiq Rahimi
#33. She told him she was fine. Except the words she used were No. I'm not.
Michelle Sagara
#34. I can't say it. Now, at last, it becomes impossible for me to mouth the words
I'm fine. I won't say anything.
Margaret Laurence
#35. Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
Marcus Aurelius
#36. [W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.
Edward Kennedy
#37. I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
Ruth St. Denis
#38. When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
Greta Gerwig
#39. I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?
Marya Hornbacher
#40. You're twisting my words."
"I think you are doing a fine job of twisting them yourself.
Julia Quinn
#41. She was striking, she was unforgettable, and she was terrifying. Those were words that applied just fine to the major.
Evan Currie
#42. I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
Elliott Erwitt
#43. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.
Libba Bray
#44. Henry James was our master of periphrasis
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
Edward Abbey
#45. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.
Mary McCarthy
#46. Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.
Jennifer Webb
#47. It wasn't just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each one, so that my head had been filled with images so magically vibrant it was as if I had seen them with my own eyes. She changed the world into something fine. She made one believe.
Megan Chance
#48. I said those final words against his lips and swallowed the rest as he kissed me. My mind went blissfully blank as his mouth moved with mine. No pain, no more fear. Just him. Just him and me and an open Countryside, heaven, and all the time in the world.
Sarah Fine
#49. Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
Edward De Bono
#50. People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.
George MacDonald
#51. You are stingy with your words," she accused, then laughed gayly as she swept around, tossing over her shoulder a roguish look that drew the length of him. "But I am more generous, my lord. You are indeed a fine sight." - Aislinn
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#52. Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
Steven Van Zandt
#53. Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
Gautama Buddha
#55. And the baby?" The words are anguished, breathless.
"The baby's fine, Mr. Grey."
"Oh, thank God." The words are litany ... a prayer, "Oh, thank God.
E.L. James
#56. There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.
Corra May Harris
#57. One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear
B.N. Toler
#59. Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.
Jodi Picoult
#60. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#61. Fine. We can act like we're fuckups idling about. As per our usual. But if we cap a god, I'm telling everyone I know! Two words: Press. Conference.
Kresley Cole
#62. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#63. The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
Robert Scheer
#64. I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.
Kasie West
#65. ...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...
Kate Fox
#66. Saw you out there in the garden. Looked so damn ... fine," he said, quietly. "Was like I hadta have ya, right then. Bubbled up like ... I dunno, puke or somethin'." Jack chuckled. "You sure have a way with words, D.
Jane Seville
#67. Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Douglas Adams
#69. This is my skin. It keeps out the rain and words I'd rather not hear like "I'm tired" or "I'm fine" or "We need to talk."
This is my skin and it's thick. This is not your skin. Yet you are still under it.
Iain S. Thomas
#70. As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
John Langdon
#71. Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?
Eiji Yoshikawa
#72. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#73. No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones
I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here
are only stand-ins for what you can say better without talking at all.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#74. When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.
Connilyn Cossette
#75. Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
Swami Vivekananda
#76. Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Aesop
#77. A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#78. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
Chris Cleave
#79. I don't think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.
Elle Lothlorien
#80. Fine," he said after a long stare down with his leader. "But if they do jump you and slit your throat, we'll get along just fine without ya." "Thanks for the kind words, hermano.
James Dashner
#81. Oddly enough, it was Prudence he studied beneath his lashes, not MacKay. The words he spoke came straight from his heart. No. Because she felt ashamed. Because she felt dirty. After the things he did to her, she could never feel worthy of someone as fine as you.
Teresa Medeiros
#82. Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.
Monica Drake
#83. I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be my intended irony.
Rachel E. Carter
#84. Ravenpaw might have made a fine warrior. His death has come too soon, and his loss will be felt by many of us for a long time." Empty words! thought Firepaw bitterly. What
Erin Hunter
#85. There's precious little to say between day and dark,
Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
Of time sailing like a magic barque
Or something as fine for the amenities ...
Allen Tate
#86. My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.
Brandon Mull
#87. Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it.
Robert Shea
#88. Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
#89. This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination.
... hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.
Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.
-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon
Howard Tayler
#90. Words are important. They let you know it's real, you're fine, more people like you exist. They let you know you're not alone.
RoAnna Sylver
#91. Fine," Jack said. "Kyrin's yours."
Those words affected me on a deep, primal level. Mine, I thought. All mine.
Gena Showalter
#92. The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.
William Hazlitt
#93. Fine," he says, his words coming out breathless. "I'll save your precious sword-master, McKenzie. But I will never, ever give you back to him.
Sandy Williams
#94. But don't ever let me hear those words leave those beautifully pink lips of yours." He warned her playfully. "Evo's just fine.
L.J. Sealey
#95. Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).
Monica Ali
#96. Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.
Douglas Brinkley
#97. I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
Neko Case
#98. There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand ... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts ... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better ... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#99. Numbers show kane is well able 78 words Harry Kane again justified his selection by Tottenham Hotspur yesterday with a fine performance against Everton. He has arguably been the pick of their forwards this season.
Anonymous
#100. She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once."
I shrugged, "fine. I said' ... just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.
Michael Siemsen
