Fancies Quotes

92 quotes by 78 authors

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will… — George Santayana
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. — Bernard Goldberg
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me. — Paloma Faith
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… — George Haven Putnam
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case… — William Osler
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our… — John Muir
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other… — Nikolai Gogol
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own… — Thomas Merton
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. — Marquis de Sade
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we… — William Shakespeare
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy

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