We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the… — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince,… — Jose Limon Copy Share Image
Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained… — Mike Matarazzo Copy Share Image
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you?… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
