Fancy Quotes

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Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace
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
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the… — George Bernard Shaw
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those… — Samuel Johnson
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. — Robert Breault
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you… — Robert Breault
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for… — Charles Caleb Colton
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide. — Samuel Johnson
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

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