Fanciful Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

— Anonymous

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts…

— Arthur Helps

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in…

— Thomas Hardy

“I've often been accused of harnessing genre strategies to mainstream ends. I do concede that relationships, characters, and introspection are my primary interest. The…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

— Gary Ross

“You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.”

— Simona Panova

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

— Plato

“Wait again. He was doing that fanciful thing, where he thought in poetry and looked in verse.”

— Theresa Romain

“Reality had so intruded in my life that flowery verse seemed fanciful, foolish, even.”

— Melanie Benjamin