I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick 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
With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening. — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice… — Mike Tice Copy Share Image
In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great… — Robert J. Flaherty Copy Share Image
Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these… — Epicurus 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
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
