Fancies Quotes

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as… — Oscar Wilde
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain â€” Quaintest thoughts… — Edgar Allan Poe
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is… — Albert Camus
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us,… — Hermann Hesse
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it… — Simon R. Green
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. — Rick Riordan
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you… — David Nicholls
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth:… — William Shakespeare
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very… — Aldous Huxley
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… — Virginia Woolf
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. — George Bernard Shaw
Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts… — Edgar Allan Poe
The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that… — Unknown Author

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