Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time… — Rohinton Mistry
There is no science without fancy and no art without fact. — Vladimir Nabokov
Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us,… — Aldo Leopold
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so… — Catherine Marshall
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird… — Lewis Carroll
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. — Michael Pollan
I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big… — Charlaine Harris
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut… — Sylvia Plath
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with… — Raymond Chandler
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant… — Angela Carter
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words… — Katherine Paterson
Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be… — Donald Miller
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.… — Lewis Carroll
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it… — Simon R. Green
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of… — Jeanette Winterson
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To… — Kurt Vonnegut
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. — Rick Riordan

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