Chapter FINE to FIST of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FINE to FIST

FINE.—Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.

Prior.—Henry and Emma.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epistle II. Line 43.

Fine words, I wonder where you stole’em.

Swift.—Whitshed’s Motto.

FIGURE.—A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty.

Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act V. Scene 3. (Gower.)

FINGER.—No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1. (Buckingham.)

FINGER.—In faith, I’ll break thy little finger, Harry,
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 3. (Lady Percy to Hotspur.)

FIRE.—Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 2. (Lucetta.)

Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth.

Genesis.—Epistle of St. James.—Chap. III. Verse 5.

As from one fatal spark arise
The flames, aspiring to the skies,
And all the crackling wood consumes.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—3rd Pythian Ode, Line 66.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 152. Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act IV. Scene 8. (Clifford to Warwick.)

Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

Pope.—Prologue to Satires.

From small fires comes oft no small mishap.

George Herbert.—The Temple Artillery.

And where two raging fires meet together,
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene 1. (Petruchio to his Father-in-law.)

FIRSTLINGS.—The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.

Shakespeare.—Macbet, Act IV. Scene 1. (Meditating the surprise of Macduff’s castle, and the destruction of his line.)