Fancy Quotes
845 quotes by 669 authors
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I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you…
— David Nicholls
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I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
— Donald Miller
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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:
— Laurence Sterne
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He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or…
— Kelley Armstrong
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece…
— Jodi Picoult
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Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth:…
— William Shakespeare
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What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their…
— Philippa Gregory
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There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in…
— Alistair Begg
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They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her…
— Kami Garcia
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In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. "Real…
— James Dashner
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Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
— William Shakespeare
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Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
— William Hazlitt
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
— Barbara Mertz
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
— John Green
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She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his…
— Leo Tolstoy
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