Fancy Quotes

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The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The… — Charles Kingsley
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a… — James Anthony Froude
Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh… — Ingvar Kamprad
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
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit… — Julie Powell
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five… — James Richardson
Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes… — Ron Atchison
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then,… — Jacque Fresco
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster. — Jon Bon Jovi
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. — Annie Dillard
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with… — Oscar Wilde
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies. — Brian Molko
Donâ€™t let people interfere with you. Boot â€™em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over… — Ray Bradbury
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some… — Samuel Johnson
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare… — Stephen Greenblatt
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen… — William Allen White
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
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon… — Jane Porter

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