Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are… — Russell Baker
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, â€˜Donâ€™t be Sicilyâ€™. — Tim Vine
My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs,… — Sandra Lee
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied… — John Ruskin
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe… — Samuel Alexander
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. — Laurell K. Hamilton
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. — Teresa Medeiros
You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This… — Henry B. Eyring
The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase… — Dmitri Volkogonov
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great… — Daniel Boone
Of course I still fancy girls but right now I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier. — Tom Daley
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be… — Humphry Davy
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy — Gerry Mulligan
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more… — Joseph Cornell
I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. — Florence Welch
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost… — Richard Halliburton
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going… — Richard Halliburton
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. — Edward E. Barnard
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson

Who Wrote These Fancy Quotes

669 authors contributed a total of 845 Fancy Quotes, led by these top contributors: