Fancies Quotes

92 Fancies quotes by 78 unique authors

We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as… — Jostein Gaarder
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies. — Brian Molko
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies,… — Christina Stead
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he… — Socrates
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift… — Richard Le Gallienne
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull… — Christian Nestell Bovee
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires… — Shakti Gawain
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer
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

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