Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own… — Thomas Merton
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. — Vladimir Nabokov
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and… — Horatio Nelson
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice… — Barack Obama
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand… — Susan Orlean
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Jean Paul
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a… — Edgar Allan Poe
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. — Colin Powell
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them… — Paul Prudhomme
Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. — Wolfgang Puck
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. — Willard Van Orman Quine
I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look. — Daniel Radcliffe
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson
Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen… — Ginger Rogers
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. — Marquis de Sade
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm… — Maria Sharapova
I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest. — Matt Smith
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. — Baruch Spinoza

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