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Quotes About Finer

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?
~ Oscar Wilde
They have undoubtedly come to a bad end by this time. If bears were sent to attend to the children who criticised Elijah, your little friends were in line for a troupe of tigers. But there were some of a finer fibre? There were a few who didn't call you Carrots?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.
~ Adam Rapp
I just didn't grasp the finer points and once tipped a process server who knocked on my door and handed me a summons.
~ Woody Allen
It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer.
~ Holly Black
In short, it is Detective Anderson. He looks up and sees me through the glass, and he smiles. It is not a smile that encourages in me any of the finer feelings. It is instead a smile that says to me, quite clearly, it is time for all Hope to die. Hope obliges.
~ Jeff Lindsay
In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness
~ Vachel Lindsay
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
~ Unknown
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…
~ Mary MacLane