Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they… — Goldwin Smith
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case… — William Osler
Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse! — Walt Disney
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our… — John Muir
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one… — Bayard Taylor
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other… — Nikolai Gogol
I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it -… — David Salle
I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent… — Matthew Lillard
Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got… — Gareth Gates
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life… — William Wordsworth
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then… — E. M. Forster
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the… — William Hazlitt
How would you know? Everythingâ€™s like sex. Itâ€™s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first,… — Ned Vizzini
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination… — John Keats
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. — Jodie Foster

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