Best 328 quotes in «fancy quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

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

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

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'.

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

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.