Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

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

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

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.

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.

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.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?