Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. — Ray Davies
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. — Flavor Flav
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me. — Paloma Faith
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I… — Alan Jackson
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of… — David Knopfler
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans… — Randy Houser
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain. — Michael Bassey
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… — George Haven Putnam
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence… — Norton Juster
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying… — Aesop
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and… — Thomas S. Power
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my… — Frosty Wooldridge
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others… — W. Somerset Maugham
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. — Christian Nestell Bovee
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
Fancy tortures more people than does reality — Ouida
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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