Fancy Quotes

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Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. — Herman Melville
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be… — Fred Rogers
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as… — Oscar Wilde
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didnâ€™t you? Iâ€™m part of you? Close, close, close! Iâ€™m the reason… — William Golding
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I… — Jan Karon
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want… — Mary Ann Shaffer
I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world… — William H. Gass
Love, being in love, isnâ€™t a constant thing. It doesnâ€™t always flow at the same strength. Itâ€™s not always like a river in flood. Itâ€™s… — Aidan Chambers
But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning — Meg Cabot
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and… — Azar Nafisi
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I… — Eddie Izzard
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,… — C.S. Lewis
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Oscar Wilde
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. — Geoffrey Chaucer
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next… — Lewis Carroll
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here. — Regina Doman
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle

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