Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

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

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

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

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

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

A little of what you fancy does you good.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

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

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

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

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

And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

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

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

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

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

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

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.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

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

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

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

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

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

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

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

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

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

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

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

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

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

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