Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 transvestites fancy girls.

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.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

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

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.

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.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

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.

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

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

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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