Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian… — Thom Yorke
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune… — Maureen Johnson
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors. — Yasujiro Ozu
I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be. — Janet Reno
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while… — John Bunyan
A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity. — Christopher McCormick
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse… — Plato
Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy. — G. Garvin
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'. — Grace Llewellyn
Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy… — Hazel Gaynor
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present — Jean Paul
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands… — Daniel J. Sullivan
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the… — Samuel Johnson
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What… — Robert Browning
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,… — John Donne
It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to… — Pope Francis
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the… — William Banting

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