Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam… — Juno Temple
I don't live in a fancy neighborhood. — Judah Friedlander
I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage… — Debi Mazar
Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to… — Debi Mazar
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures.… — Debi Mazar
And â€˜classically not beautifulâ€™ is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you. — Viola Davis
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear. — William Shakespeare
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. — Thomas Gray
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… — Marsilio Ficino
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness. — Elsa Maxwell
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy. — Julie Benz
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long -… — Laurence Sterne
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other… — Robert South
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
I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding. — John Searle
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period,… — Goldwin Smith
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General… — James Longstreet

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