Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! — William Shakespeare
So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical. — William Shakespeare
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the… — William Shakespeare
All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. — William Shakespeare
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an… — Ambrose Bierce
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. — Charles Lamb
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. — Philip Freneau
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that… — Oscar Wilde
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. — Samuel Johnson
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. — Walter Scott
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. — John Dryden
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him… — Charles Kingsley
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. — William Cowper
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. — Charles Darwin
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!. — Rebecca Loos
I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to. — Andrea Corr
I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer. — Glenn Roeder

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