Fine Things Quotes

“I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“There are many Universal Facts of Life: things that are so tried and tested as to be irrefutable.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer’s gaze we sit, one’s uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8