Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt. — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as… — Adelia Prado Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal… — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
