Fancy Quotes

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

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

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Of course I still fancy girls but right now I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.