Fancy Quote by William Rounseville Alger Download Open image “A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.” — William Rounseville Alger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fancy
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
“The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
