Fancy Quotes · Page 20

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

— George Eliot

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm comfortable with the fact that some managers might not fancy me. I'm totally comfortable with that.

— Miguel Almiron

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

— Brad Goreski

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

— Rebecca Loos

“When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm.”

— Dia Reeves

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and…

— Joan Didion

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

— Lilly Pulitzer

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed…

— Debi Mazar

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with…

— Kristi Noem

“Lower the animal, fancier the extravagance, Fancy car, fancy clothes, fancy mansion. Higher the human, simpler the existence, Simple life orchestrates mindful…

— Abhijit Naskar

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's…

— Hugh Jackman

Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley,…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom…

— Rumi

Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught…

— Henry Vaughan

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is,…

— Frank Zappa

To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,…

— George Santayana

Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river…

— Aidan Chambers

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super…

— Donald Glover

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in…

— Jeannette Walls

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more…

— Jason Statham

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And…

— Stevie Smith

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

— Analeigh Tipton

Littel make up , long fancy dress and dim lights and lips whispering I love you it's all I need right now

— Miss Leto

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'

— Sophie Turner

“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

If you have a beard, I would suggest putting glitter on it, because it will make you look fancy.

— Bianca Del Rio

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

— A. P. Herbert

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art,…

— Charles Burnett

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

— Randy Pausch

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

— Anonymous

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

— Julia Child

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

— J. B. Priestley