Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in… — Annie Dillard
Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain â€” Quaintest thoughts… — Edgar Allan Poe
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… — William Strunk, Jr.
Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars? — Emma Thompson
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the… — Kate Chopin
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for… — Ivan Turgenev
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is… — Albert Camus
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet,… — Robert Burns
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals-… — Shel Silverstein
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and… — Jane Austen
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. — Suzanne Collins
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" â€” William Shakespeare "hamlet — William Shakespeare
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us,… — Hermann Hesse

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