Fancy Quotes
845 quotes by 669 authors
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
— Anton Chekhov
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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively…
— Gregg Olsen
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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
— William Butler Yeats
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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on…
— Suzanne Collins
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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
— Terry Goodkind
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You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and…
— Howard Pyle
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World is suddener than we fancy it.
— Louis MacNeice
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care…
— John Grogan
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You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna…
— L.A. Meyer
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very…
— Aldous Huxley
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If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the…
— Rick Riordan
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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do anything humanly possible to impress you so that,…
— Steve Harvey
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In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other…
— Roger Zelazny
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The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all…
— Glenn Beck
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Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?†Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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