Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex… — Emma Watson
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple. — Shaun White
When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something,… — Prince William
I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind… — Kate Winslet
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? — Mary Wollstonecraft
You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush.… — Helen Fisher
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else.… — Caitlin Moran
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. — Vladimir Nabokov
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having… — Lewis Carroll
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors… — Mark Twain
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall… — Virginia Woolf
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most… — Adam Smith
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? — Ian Mcewan
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you… — Honore de Balzac
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare

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