Fancy Quotes

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

Most transvestites fancy girls.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the red dress. We are a little bit of everyone. Let's not get too fancy here.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

False fancy brings real misery.

I just don't think men fancy me.

Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.

Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.