Fancy Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.”

— Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

— Thomas Hardy

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme…

— David Knopfler

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that…

— George Grenville

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

— Charles Kingsley

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

— Wilfrid Sheed

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

“Sometimes instinct isn't fancy.”

— Shannon Hale

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov