Fancy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

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

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

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

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?