Fancy Quotes · Page 30

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning…

— Jack London

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that…

— Woodrow Wilson

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to…

— John Vaillant

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not…

— Lewis Carroll

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search…

— Richard Halliburton

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a…

— Djuna Barnes

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they…

— Donald Miller

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first…

— Charles Dickens

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy…

— George W. Bush

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a…

— Allen Iverson

The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy…

— Dennis Holme Robertson

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

— Mitt Romney

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

— John Lyly

Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's…

— John Petrucci

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no…

— Walter Savage Landor

“I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me.”

— Dia Reeves

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm…

— Kool Keith

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

— Terence Stamp

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

— St. Jerome

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

— Florence Nightingale

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

— Karl Lagerfeld

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the…

— John Burroughs