Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of… — Thomas Hardy
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely… — Edgar Allan Poe
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed… — Sarah Waters
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we… — William Shakespeare
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!… — George MacDonald
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, botherâ€”-Scrubb probably has! — C.S. Lewis
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? — William Shakespeare
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly… — P.G. Wodehouse
And suddenly I realize that although I've never thought about being in love with Nick before, all the right ingredients are there. I fancy him.… — Jane Green
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were… — Katherine Mansfield
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs… — Margaret Mitchell
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard… — Anna Sewell
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. Youâ€™ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isnâ€™t going to work. — Randy Pausch
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely… — Alan Moore
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that… — Jane Austen
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious… — J D Salinger
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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