Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began… — Henry David Thoreau
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker
Compromise is just a fancy term for losing. — Megan Smith
I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers. — Dylan Moran
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East… — Kristi Noem
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be… — Octavia Butler
The shy and the extroverted have this in common â€” that they both fancy they are the center of attention. — Robert Breault
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
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on… — Henry David Thoreau
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?! — Alex Riley
I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar… — CM Punk
And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz! — Alex Riley
Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu… — Alex Riley
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas… — Edward E. Barnard
It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way… — Herman Melville
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
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White

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