Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should… — Federico Zuccari
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Granville Penn
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us. — Tim DeKay
We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them! — Sam Torrance
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? — Greta Garbo
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not… — John Keats
The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet… — Slim Dusty
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is… — Hannah More
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle… — John Dewey
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome
Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll… — Anna Kendrick
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing… — Dennis Holme Robertson
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. — Walter Raleigh

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