Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

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

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

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

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.

Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

Most transvestites fancy girls.

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

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

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

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

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

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

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

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

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

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

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

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.

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

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

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

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

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

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.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

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

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

so full of shapes is fancy

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.