Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 not let fancy outrun your means.

'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'.

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

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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

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

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.