We Fancy Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. — Annie Dillard
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us,… — Aldo Leopold
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard… — Russell Brand
World is suddener than we fancy it. — Louis MacNeice
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become… — Francis Spufford
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be. — Charles Reade

Who Wrote These We Fancy Quotes

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