Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience… — Alexander Hamilton
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... — Edgar Allan Poe
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. — Horace
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how… — Sue Grafton
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon… — Albert Einstein
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of… — Clifton Fadiman
I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really… — Minnie Driver
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was… — Jennifer Connelly
I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get… — Ellen Page
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce… — Count Basie
Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by… — Seth Green
I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. Itâ€™s the most fun… — Noel Fielding
I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some… — Alan Alda
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. — Terence Stamp
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars. — Analeigh Tipton
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes.… — Cheryl Hines
Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him. — Billie Piper
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe

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