Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

- Michael Ignatieff

We have the finest military personnel in the world.

- Theresa May

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

- Salman Rushdie

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

- Roger Babson

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

- Robert Gottlieb

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Richard M. Nixon

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

- Peter Tork

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

- Plautus

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

- Phyllis Diller

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

- Max Greenfield

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

- Beatrice Wood

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

- Michel de Montaigne

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

- Michael Caine

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

- Jim Coleman

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

- Jonathan Brownlee

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

- Evel Knievel

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

- Donald Wolfit

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

- David Lloyd George

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

- Bob Gibson