[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to wear fancy dress-up pieces with your everyday denim jeans/shorts. — Disha Patani Copy Share Image
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong.… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
“I feed Volnay, who eats in her unusual way, delicately removing one piece of kibble at a time from her bowl, placing… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable. — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot . — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him. — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty. — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
“Cheapest of heart wears priciest of clothes, to cover up the stink of a rotten soul.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
On tour and on event days, we usually wear fancy outfits, so in everyday life, I prefer wearing comfortable clothes. — Dahyun Copy Share Image
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
You don't need a fancy degree to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head , your heart , your hands. — Rashmi Bansal Copy Share Image
I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place. — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
“Do I get to wear a fancy hat?" "The fanciest," I said. "And possibly a cape." "Will there be plumes?" "Oh, yes.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image