Fancy Quotes · Page 24

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

— Oscar Wilde

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth,…

— Bernard Barton

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra'…

— Marian Keyes

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

— Matt Taibbi

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to…

— Cheryl Hines

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

— Alexander Pope

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

— Gelett Burgess

The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just…

— Alain Ducasse

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

— Maisie Williams

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

— William Cowper

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

— Edward Young

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in…

— Thomas Hardy

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

— Greta Garbo

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

— Epicurus

We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!

— Sam Torrance

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

— Jane Austen

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my…

— Donald Trump

Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once…

— Sheridan Smith

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale.…

— Suzanne Collins

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal…

— Kelly Preston

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

— Sheridan Smith

She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I…

— Mary Johnston