Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

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.

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 played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Most transvestites fancy girls.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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