Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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?

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

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

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

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

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 well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.

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.

I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

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.

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

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Most transvestites fancy girls.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

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

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

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.