To fine folks a little ill finely wrapt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. [ Churchill ]

Ugly women, finely dressed, are the uglier for it. [ Proverb ]

Mostly, where the body is finely adorned, the soul is ungarnished. [ Proverb ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. [ Colton ]

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]