My Fancy Quotes

25 quotes by 21 authors

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of… — Charles Baudelaire
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
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy — Gerry Mulligan
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
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! — Lilly Pulitzer
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of… — Mary Johnston
Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning — Elwyn Brooks White
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began… — Henry David Thoreau
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my… — Frosty Wooldridge
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one… — Bayard Taylor
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life… — William Wordsworth
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night… — Barry Gibb
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for… — Ellie Goulding
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Jean Paul
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before.… — Elwyn Brooks White
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne
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

Who Wrote These My Fancy Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 25 My Fancy Quotes as follows: