Fancy Quotes

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

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

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!

That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

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

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

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

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.

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.

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

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

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

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.