Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes… — Mother Teresa
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because… — Frederick William Robertson
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That… — T.H. White
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is… — Ernest Becker
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the… — Ernestine Rose
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep… — Cliff Burton
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. — Joan Didion
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds,… — Robert Aris Willmott
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy… — Jose Limon
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill
If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been… — Herman Leonard
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For… — Henry Taylor
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds… — George Grenville
A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can… — Monty Roberts
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information… — Philip Greenspun
The line was originally, â€˜Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,â€™ but I ad-libbed. — Barkhad Abdi
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde
Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city… — Willie Stargell

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