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Quotes About Fair

MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY. Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
~ Oscar Wilde
Tuppy wiped a fair portion of Hampshire out of his eye, and peered round him in a dazed kind of way...
~ p g wodehouse
I want to see the manager. Is there anything I could do, sir? Archie looked at him doubtfully. Well, as a matter of fact, my dear old desk-clerk, he said, I want to kick up a fearful row, and it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. Why you, I mean to say? The blighter whose head I want on a charger is the bally manager.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You know, you smoke too much, Pat, said his wife, seizing the opening with the instinct which makes an Irishman at a fair hit every head he sees.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Così è il Mondo, così sono gli Uomini, così è l'Amore. Cos'altro siamo se non fantocci in un teatrino da fiera? Oh, Destino onnipotente tira con gentilezza i nostri fili! Abbi pietà di noi, e dalla nostra scena angusta concedici di uscire a passo di danza.
~ Wilkie Collins
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
~ William Golding
Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
~ Chris Rock
Child, you are like a flower,So sweet and pure and fair.I look at you, and sadnessTouches me with a prayer.
~ Heinrich Heine
I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nobody expects the tax collector to be a friend, but one does expect the government to apply its mind to making payments and refunds fair and user friendly especially for those who are actually paying tax.
~ Sucheta Dalal
If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.
~ David Ulevitch
The genius of the market is supposed to lie in its ability to allocate society's resources to their most efficient uses without central direction. Labour has long recognised that efficiency doesn't always correspond with what is socially optimal or, in other words, 'fair.'
~ Clive Lewis
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
~ Jasper Fforde
The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.
~ Mel Tillis
I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.
~ Frank Miller
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
~ Sally Rand
My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
~ Dennis Farina
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
I am struck by the memories of all of the fantastic Links ladies who worked so hard to host the Ebony Fashion Fair shows.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.
~ Paul Gillmor
'Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?'
~ Christopher Voss
Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories
~ Tom Holland
Han: "Someone ought to make armor out of those bugs." Leia: "Han! They're sentient beings!" Han: "Fair is fair. If they get to wear it, so should we." - Han and Leia Solo
~ Troy Denning