Fancy Quotes - Page 12

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

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.

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.

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.

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

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

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

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.