Fancy Quotes

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

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

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.