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Quotes About Fair

The closeted homosexual is far less likely to demand fair or just treatment for his kind, because to do so would call attention to himself.
~ Randy Shilts
Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear And say out prayers that most need saying For needful sinners who've forgotten praying; And in every alcove and niche you spy The living dead who envy the long since gone Who never wished to die.
~ Ray Douglas Bradbury
I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.
~ Katie Hopkins
Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.
~ Frank McCourt
my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what happened, like the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us
~ Julian Barnes
A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.
~ Karen Armstrong
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
~ Jack Nicholson
It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.
~ Washington Irving
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
~ Quintilian
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
~ William Shakespeare
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
~ Alexandre Dumas
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
~ Euripides
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
~ Louis Kronenberger
Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.
~ Mark Hodder
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.
~ William Henry Vanderbilt
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!
~ Ronald Reagan
This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
~ William Styron
Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
~ William Shakespeare
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
~ Edmund Spenser
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
~ Ovid
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
~ Robert Reich
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.
~ Richard Wilbur
Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.
~ David Penhaligon