Finer Quotes

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.