It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain…

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

— Sarah Fielding

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like…

— Carrie Brownstein

Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Henry Fuseli

“Sometimes instinct isn't fancy.”

— Shannon Hale

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

'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

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

“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