Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared… — Ramon Magsaysay
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo
Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will listen and won't… — Lucinda Bassett
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that… — Thomas Carlyle
I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't. — Milton Berle
People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes. — Jack Johnson
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ... — Jan Karon
In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man. — Mart Crowley
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without… — Henry Fuseli
I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You… — Alexa Chung
I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff. — Simon Baker
I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's… — Michelle Forbes
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. — Bernard Goldberg
Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll… — Billy Gardell
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot . — Jeff Greenfield
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. — Melinda Gates
When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut. — Steve Martin
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance.… — William Sealy Gosset
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do… — George W. Bush

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