I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its…

— Michael Patrick King

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Sometimes instinct isn't fancy.”

— Shannon Hale

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

— Charles Kingsley

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that…

— George Grenville

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme…

— David Knopfler

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two…

— Henry Mancini