What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker'… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you.… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea].… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game… — Herman Leonard 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
