Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If… — Junior Kimbrough
Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are… — Frank Norris
Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes.… — Walter Lord
Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other... — Jimmy Carr
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… — Murasaki Shikibu
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy,… — Donald J. Boudreaux
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. — Isabella Beeton
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy… — Richard Baxter
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
I didn't fancy any of my teachers. — Katie Price
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't… — William Peter Blatty
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. — Edmund Waller
What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. — Karel Reisz
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited… — David Karp
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. — Jane Austen
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski

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