The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be. — Charles Reade Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it. — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will — Frank Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. — John Green Copy Share Image
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving… — Helen Wills Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker… — Henry George Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Don't be overwhelmed by a man's fancy car, fancy house or fancy clothes. It's really the person inside the care, house and… — Sumiko Tan Copy Share Image
Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in,… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“You got your designer blue jeans, your designer shoes, your designer luggage. Now Miss Fancy Pants got her some designer pussy.” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress. — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
The fancy cars, the glitter and the fame. It's all nice but it won't be worth a thing. Love is bigger, so… — Tori Kelly Copy Share Image
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos. — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image